Superheroes
You need superpowers to love someone for an entire lifetime.
This tender dramatic comedy from Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers IFF16) tells the poignant and passionate love story of Anna (the sublime Jasmine Trinca, The Goddess of Fortune IFF20) and Marco (Alessandro Borghi, Suburra: Blood on Rome). Anna is a cartoonist with an impulsive and nonconformist personality and Marco is a physics teacher convinced that every phenomenon has its own explanation. Yet what keeps them together is an unknown that no formula can reveal or explain.
Following the young couple who fall in love and struggle to keep their relationship alive through tenderness and fights, lies and emotions, secrets and cheatings, it seems that their superpower is finding the strength to keep their relationship together for over a decade.
Based on the eponymous novel written by Genovese himself and featuring a perfectly aligned soundtrack, Superheroes is a touching drama about couples and the effect of time on their relationships.
DIRECTOR: PAOLO GENOVESE
Born in Rome in 1966, Paolo Genovese is a director and screenwriter. Earning a degree in Economics and Business, he moved into advertising at McCann Erickson Italiana where he won many awards for his TV commercials. Entering into filmmaking in 2001 and making his feature debut with The Santa Claus Gang in 2010, he went on to direct the multi award-winning Perfect Strangers (IFF16).