Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
In Italy, couples prepare for their imminent weddings. The bureaucratic State and the dogmatic Church oversee the nuptials. Municipal employees listen to couples’ statements and intentions. A provincial priest delivers a matrimonial lesson: speaking of faith and science, spirituality, and sexuality.
In Italy, couples prepare for their imminent weddings. The bureaucratic State and the dogmatic Church oversee the nuptials. Municipal employees listen to couples’ statements and intentions. A provincial priest delivers a matrimonial lesson: speaking of faith and science, spirituality, and sexuality.
Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti started a decade-long collaboration in nonfiction filmmaking with this magnanimous look at marriage and its administrative and religious scaffolding. Against paperwork and sermons emerges a mosaic of affectionate, gently humorous portraits of couples in love.