jotix100 Andrea and Bart are two good friends recently graduated from college and starting their own lives. Andrea, who has graduated from what might be the equivalent of Liberal Arts, finds the grim reality of finding a job that will help him start a career. Bart, on the other hand, is a lazy sort whose only purpose in life seems to be talking about outrageous stories about terrible things in the news, probably. The duo's repartee is the basis of the film, as two diverse twenty-somethings go aimlessly around the city playing tricks and stealing books they cannot afford to buy otherwise.Andrea meets, by chance, the lovely Dolores, a young university student interested in making a career in the theater. Andrea falls madly in love with the gorgeous woman, but there is a big problem. Dolores comes clean telling Andrea about meeting a director who was interested in casting her for a role in his new play. He took her to dinner and then to his apartment where both ended up having sex. Even though this happened before they even met, Andrea cannot get over the fact that he was not her first one. The action is interspersed with the two buddies love for soccer, although their idol, Diego Maradona, was long retired from the game.Marco Ponti, who had written for the Italian cinema, was making his full length debut with "Santa Maradona" a buddy film that should have been better, after all, it has the right elements going into it, in addition to the principals who are appealing in the work they have done in movies from their country. The film is a crazy combination of styles as it kept reminding this viewer about the films of Kevin Smith as well as Danny Boyle in the way these two friends go through life, one wanting to enter the employed classes while the other refuses to take part into anything serious with his life.Stefano Accorsi and Libero De Rienzo are seen as Andrea and Bart. They have done better in other films. Mr. Accorsi is the serious one, while Mr. De Rienzo has the best opportunities to be funny with his Bart. Beautiful Anita Caprioli plays Dolores, Andrea's love interest, and Mandela Tayde appears as Lucia.

Funkadelic_116 It was a hot summer night when I first saw the movie, and straight from get go the Italian atmosphere displayed so prominently in this movie just sucked me in.All the actors in the movie have excellent charisma and presence on screen which is aided by the chemistry between them all. You really feel like you are watching every day life people having a good time rather than a scripted movie. Anita Caprioli is absolutely stunning in this film, from the first scene that she is in you can't stop looking from her.Now for the not so good. As many users before me mentioned this movie deals with some major issues in the Italian life, such as unemployment for the younger generation. Andrea keeps looking for work and keeps getting rejected while Bart has given up altogether and settles for some street philosophy and bumming around. Aside from that the story slows down towards the end, after Adrea dumps Dolores, and the movie doesn't really recover from there. Most of the fun in this movie was watching the relationship develop, and when that disappears and the missing housemate comes back the story just gets ridiculous to the point where the whole feel of the movie is disturbed and feels as though a different director took over.To finish this all off, I still enjoyed this movie immensely, particularly because of the chemistry of the leads and if you have a chance sit down and give this movie a shot. Won't be disappointed

diazr While not a great social commentary, the playful portrayal of tension between the 4 protagonists makes it fun to watch. Andrea is purposefully like many other Italian young adults, living the fact of unemployment and getting no where even when he tries; his chance (too forced?) meeting with Dolores is a distraction and test of his commitment to growing up. His room mate and other friends also help drag him down. Can he break out?It's also refreshing to find the true-to-life non resolution of relationships; it's use of language is also street real.

papale I wish many of you will get the chance to see this movie. Why? 'Cause it's about a generation (mine...i was born in 1974) with very few things known for sure, full of doubts, asking for much and getting very little. Because it's been shot in my own town, Torino, in Italy: a wonderful city not yet appreciated as it should be, and here, in the movie, elegantly and properly photographed and shown. Because the story is brilliantly told, because the characters are as real as they can be in a movie. Because it's funny but not stupid. Because, though not flawless, it's a good movie, modern enough in its layout and accurate enough in the way it's written to be enjoyed by a wide (not decerebrate) audience.