The First Beautiful Thing
- Released on
- Runtime
- 122 mins
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
Cast
- Valerio Mastandrea
- Micaela Ramazzotti
- Stefania Sandrelli
- Claudia Pandolfi
- Marco Messeri
- Fabrizia Sacchi
- Aurora Frasca
- Giacomo Bibbiani
- Giulia Burgalassi
- Francesco Rapalino
- Sergio Albelli
- Isabella Cecchi
- Emanuele Barresi
- Dario Ballantini
- Paolo Ruffini
- Fabrizio Brandi
- Jacopo Dini
- Michele Crestacci
- Roberto Rondelli
- Sirio Malfatti
- Alessio Colombini
- Paolo Giommarelli
- Alessia Innocenti
- Giorgio Algranti
- Claudio Marmugi
- Alessandra Cantini
- Edoardo Ferrari
- Domenico Cirianni
- Elena Bernardini
- Isabelle Adriani
- Marcellina Ruocco
- Marco Risi
- Raffaele Vannoli
- Diego Salvadori
- Alessio Silipo
- Lucilla Serchi
- Giovanni Rindi
- Franca Antongiovanni
- Ada Antongiovanni
- Maria Pia Aricó
- Daniela Carrozzi
- Toto Barbato
- Sara Mannucci
Director
- Paolo Virzì
Producers
- Fabrizio Donvito
- Benedetto Habib
- Gabriele Muccino
- Marco Cohen
Screenwriter
- Francesco Piccolo
- Paolo Virzì
- Francesco Bruni
