Matteo first meets Greta in Rome. He’s playing tennis when, en route to her own wedding, she stops for a game with this stranger. Greta wipes the floor with Matteo and, with a beguiling smile, dashes off to get married. Matteo is lovestruck, but what can he do? Years later, Matteo, in San Sebastián to attend a Bruce Springsteen concert, sees Greta searching for her missing daughter. Later still, Matteo spots her once again in a Rome café. She’s still with her husband, deeply focused on motherhood, while Matteo has a new wife. Their paths converge in different cities and at different points in time. Will one of these fleeting encounters finally bring them together?
"What struck me immediately when reading Eshkol Nevo’s stories was the precision with which he portrays relationships and the depth of feeling they convey. They are stories about love, encounters and partings, but also about parents and their grown-up children, and all those bonds that accompany us – more or less quietly – throughout our lives. /.../ From that came the desire to tell a love story – but one in which a woman and a man always meet at the wrong moment. What drives the characters is the hope of another chance, the willingness to believe that life always has one more possibility in store for us, that there will always be a time when things can still happen."
(Nanni Moretti)
Nanni Moretti
Born in 1953 in Bruneck, Italy, Moretti made his first feature film in Super 8 format in 1976, followed in the 1980s by a series of films that established him as the pre-eminent Italian filmmaker of his generation. His international breakthrough came with Dear Diary, April and The Son’s Room, the last of which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Although most of Moretti’s films are explicitly intimate in subject, they also engage with Italy’s political situation.