I Love You in All the Languages in the World

I love you in all the languages in the world (Ti amo in tutte le lingue del mondo) is an Italian film of 2005 directed and performed by Leonardo Pieraccioni.

Plot

Gilberto Rovai, a teacher of physical education at a school in Pistoia, decides to prepare a surprise party with his closest friends to celebrate his wife's birthday. When the woman is at the entrance to the house, she answers a call and, from her conversation, everyone finds out that she has a lover. Gilberto divorced after three years of marriage, going to live with his stammering brother and janitor of his school, as well as swimming enthusiast, Cateno.

A year after the divorce, Gilberto, still in the role of professor of physical education, finds himself having to manage the infatuation of his pupil Paolina, who leaves him with "I love you" in all the languages of the world and sends him continuous sms with the same messages; Gilberto is left nothing but embarrassed, having to undergo more the lectures of the school principal, who, in addition to not sympathize with Professor Rovai, is convinced that the two have a relationship (several times the principal Gilberto to transfer it to Borgo in Buggiano). One evening, the professor, convinced by his colleague Anselmi, decides to spend an erotic evening in a villa of swingers with his friend, with the game of "sex from the glass ampoule": the two decide to exchange the keys of the apartments and Gilberto finds the ex-wife in the room.

Disgusted, he decides to leave and, having gone to his car, sees a woman arguing with a man: getting a slap from him, he decides to take her home, Margherita. Between the two immediately a sympathy is born and, obtained his telephone number, he begins to frequent it. So, one Sunday afternoon, Margherita decides to invite Gilberto to lunch, and it comes to discover that her daughter is just Pauline, who knew that her mother was dating a man, but did not know the identity of this (and vice versa Gilberto). The surprise meeting between the two has devastating effects: Gilberto faints in shock and is taken to hospital, while Paolina reacts very badly and argues with her mother. Gilberto then goes to ask a consultation to his friend the psychologist Bellucci, who claims that Paolina is attracted to him because he identifies him with the father he has never met; Gilberto then talks to Margherita to ask for explanations.

The woman reveals that Paolina's father did not actually die, but that the two did not see each other for a long time after she became pregnant and, at their next meeting, he had become a friar and did not have the courage to tell him the truth . Gilberto tries to encourage her to tell her daughter the truth, so that she can finally have a father figure and be free to be together, but the woman fears that it is not a good idea. Gilberto, convinced by Anselmi (who started having sexual encounters with his colleague's ex-wife after meeting her at the swingers' villa), contacted Brother Massimo, reveals the news and causes him to faint. Initially the friar does not feel he can assume the role of father figure, but after several days he decides to know her. The two organize themselves for an informal meeting with Pauline. During the evening, however, Massimo can not tell the truth to Paolina, so he pretends to have been a friend of his father. The friar, with this trick, talks about himself in Paolina for a long time and the latter feels more serene for having been able to know more about him. Margherita, who knows about the meeting, decides to tell the truth to Paolina after this has shown her a picture taken by the friar and, the day after school, the girl takes it with Gilberto for not telling her the truth, also taking stone the car, urging him to tell her where Massimo lives to meet him again. Gilberto, however, instead of reacting, hugs the girl, allowing her to let off steam crying on his shoulder.

The headmaster of the school sees them and thinks it is the confirmation of the rumors that they wanted a relationship between the two, and so Gilberto is unjustly forced to move to Borgo a Buggiano. One day, seven months after his forced transfer, Margherita makes a surprise to Gilberto during the reception of the professors. Margherita tells him that Cateno has secretly brought to her the many letters that Gilberto wrote to her but that she had never had the courage to send them. The woman decides to move to Borgo a Buggiano to stay with him, so the two get together kissing, while instead Paolina found his love in the son of the psychologist Bellucci, from whom Gilberto had advised her to go.

Trivia

• Almost all the film was shot in Pistoia, while the scenes at the amusement park were filmed in Gardaland.
• Francesco Tricarico, who for the film wrote the soundtrack Solo per te, and participated by playing a small part in the role of friar Francesco.
• Inside the film there is also a greeting to Alberto Sordi, who died two years before the release of the film: in fact, towards the end, there is a shot that stops for a few seconds on an advertising poster with "Hi, Alberto".
• The character played by Pieraccioni is called Gilberto Rovai, just like one of the best friends of the Tuscan actor-director, who died in 2004 due to neurofibromatosis
• They make an appearance in the film in the chorus of the friars : Carlo Conti, Paolo Beldì, Giovanni Benincasa and Giovanni Veronesi, besides the aforementioned Francesco Tricarico.

External links

• I Love You in All the Languages in the World on IMDb