"Manual of love 2" by Giovanni Veronesi
A temporarily paralyzed boy falls in love with his physiotherapist, a couple who have been married for four years have resorted to artificial insemination to have a child, two gays finally decide to go to Spain to get married and a 50-year-old loses his head for the young niece of his neighbor. home…
After the 13 million euros collected from the first episode, Giovanni Veronesi continues his investigation into the seasons of love with what in his intentions has become the second part of a pentalogy. And he obviously repeats the same structure as the prototype, with four separate stories and a varied cast, looking for confirmation of that surprising success. This time the film perhaps has some more claims, addressing less banal issues than the previous one, such as assisted insemination and gay marriage. The result, however, does not convince, in any of the four episodes, although it gives the impression that the film in its entirety is a more successful product than the previous one.
If in the prototype the first episode was the best, here instead we start very badly with an empty and even a bit sloppy episode, which is bearable thanks to the verve of Dario Bandiera's shoulder but certainly not thanks to the watered down sx appeal of the two protagonists. In addition, the film ends with an excessively long and never funny episode, played by a Carlo Verdone whose character is now tired and by a completely anonymous Spanish carneade.
The two central episodes are the most successful, despite their imperfection. The one dedicated to motherhood presents brilliant dialogues but obvious situations, and for the first time in her career, Barbora Bobulova gives the impression of being misdirected. The one on gay marriage is perhaps the most inspired, and despite Rubini's and Albanese's comic acting it is the only one that seems truly accomplished despite the carelessness of certain jokes. A little bit, given the many words spent on the film being promoted, but perhaps enough for the public who loved the previous one. Economic success or not, from a cinematic point of view we have nothing to expect from this series.
