cinematography
Diego Romero Suarez-Llanos
Clarissa Cappellani
editing
Irene Vecchio
music
Giulia Tagliavia
sound
Danilo Romancino

cast
Chiara Francini
Alessandro Federico
Karl Gustaf Fredrik Lundqvist
Sara Girelli
Chloe Gatti
Daniele Gatti
Efrem Sposini

producers
Chiara Francini
Karl Gustaf Fredrik Lundqvist
Fabio Morgan
Pierfrancesco Pisani
co-producer
Mario Paloschi
production
Nemesis
with Rai Cinema
co-production
Ballandi
with the support of
MiC – Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo

Italian distribution
I Wonder Pictures
distribution@iwonderpictures.it
www.iwonderpictures.com

Italian press office
Giulia Martinez
giuliamarpress@gmail.com
Arianna Monteverdi
arianna.monteverdi@gmail.com

A film about the desire for happiness, based on the play by Franca Rame and Dario Fo. For years now, the highly-regarded actress and author Chiara Francini has brought The Open Couple to the stage. This timeless fairy tale or inferno, as the case may be, looks at couples in love, and love beyond couples. That’s the story of Antonia, whose husband proposes an open marriage. She only agrees so she won’t lose him, but everything changes as soon as she starts to investigate her feelings and peer out over her living-room couch. Chiara/Antonia, now torn between her husband Fredrik and her partner-in-crime and on-stage, Alessandro, resolves to explore a world born of the open couples of the ‘70s, a world of polyamory, the young and not-so-young who are “against” monogamy, feminists, and sex-positive parties. She delves into her own soul, her life and loves filled with questions, doubt, laughter and the certainties we desperately hold on to, as a way to rein ourselves in.

2024 Coppia aperta quasi spalancata
2021 Il Palazzo (doc)
2016 Liberami (doc)
2009 Housing (doc)
2006 Il lato grottesco della vita (doc)
2003 Suicidio perfetto (short)
2001 Close up (short)
2000 Los colores de la trance, Marrakesh (doc)

Federica Di Giacomo graduated with a degree in anthropology in Florence and worked for the Teatro Danza in Italy and abroad. In Barcelona she attended a Master’s program in documentary filmmaking. A screenwriter, filmmaker and camera operator, in 2016 her film Deliver Us earned her the Horizons Award for Best Film at Venice, the Solinas Prize for a Documentary Film, Best Documentary at the Madrid Film Festival, and the Doc/it Professional Award. The film was shortlisted for the Silver Ribbons, David di Donatello, and the European Film Awards. Her earlier works include: Il lato grottesco della vita (2006), which garnered accolades at the Torino Film Festival, and Housing (2009), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and Hot Docs, among others.