I am not a big fan of melodramas, but since I liked the two previous films by Paolo Genovese (Ideal Strangers and Meeting Place), I decided to watch his new film Superheroes/Supereroi, 2021, which is just a melodrama. The film is not bad and the actors are good, but the story itself is not very original, but sometimes tear-pressing. The main characters - Anna (Jazmine Trinca) and Marco (Alessandro Borghi) accidentally collide during the rain in the alley, but fate is destined to be together, so she brings them together again. Anna works as an artist, draws comics, this is just a series of her comics called “Superheroes”, in them she semi-autobiographically portrays a couple, Marco teaches physics at the university, i.e. they are like completely different people, but she does not pay attention to this circumstance, although Anna herself at first advocates even separate living. We observe the development of their relations, and we are shown them now and then in the past, the chronology of events is mixed. From time to time, people from the past appear in the present, and in completely unexpected circumstances. And the end should completely squeeze a tear out of us, Anna decides to finally have a child at the most inopportune time, I will not quite disclose what time. Of course, in life, everything happens and people behave differently, maybe it happens. Unfortunately, the film didn’t make much of an impression on me, although out of sympathy for Genovese, perhaps someone else will want to see it, as I did myself.
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