The Second Wife (1998 film)
| The Second Wife | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ugo Chiti |
| Screenplay by | Ugo Chiti Nicola Zavagli |
| Produced by | Rita Rusić Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| Starring | Maria Grazia Cucinotta Lazar Ristovski |
| Cinematography | Raffaele Mertes |
| Edited by | Roberto Perpignani |
| Music by | Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi |
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| Language | Italian |
The Second Wife (Italian: La seconda moglie) is a 1998 Italian coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Ugo Chiti and starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta. It premiered at the 55th Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
Cast
- Maria Grazia Cucinotta as Anna
- Lazar Ristovski as Fosco
- Giorgio Noè as Livio
- Candida Vettori as Stella
- Jessica Auriemma as Santina
- Sergio Pierattini as Uncle Moreno
- Stefano Abbati as Uncle Umberto
- Patrizia Corti as Fernanda
- Pietro Fornaciari as Sirio
- Dante Daddi as Omero
Production
The film was shot in Tuscany, with principal photography starting in August 2017.[1]
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 55th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Prospectives sidebar.[2]
Reception
Variety's critic David Rooney described the film as a "technically polished" film with a "cliched story" that looks like "a comparatively chaste version of the rustic sexfests made by Tinto Brass in the 1980s".[3] Svet Atanasov from DVD Talk favorably compared the film to Giuseppe Tornatore's Malèna and called it "a pleasant surprise" and "a very enjoyable film, one that relies on a well structured plot bringing quite a twist to the finale".[4] Paolo Mereghetti panned the film, describing it as "a festival of banalities" that "looks like a Mulino Bianco commercial".[5]
References
- ^ "Cucinotta e il vedovo oggi sposi per Chiti". la Repubblica. 18 August 1997. p. 29.
- ^ Robiony, Simonetta (31 July 1998). "Chiti: «La mia Maria Grazia tra dolcezza e pudore»". La Stampa. No. 208. p. 22.
- ^ Rooney, David (5 October 1998). "The Second Wife". Variety. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ Atanasov, Svet (4 July 2003). "La Seconda Moglie". DVD Talk. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ Mereghetti, Paolo (2010). "La seconda moglie". Il Mereghetti 2011. Vol. 2. Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN 978-88-6073-626-0.