ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Somebody to Love (Follemente)
A philosophy professor and a furniture restorer meet for a first date that quickly becomes anything but ordinary. As the evening unfolds, their inner emotions — logic, desire, fear and impulse — take on lives of their own, turning a simple encounter into a revealing and often hilarious battle of the heart and mind.
Director
Paolo Genovese
Actors
Edoardo Leo • Pilar Fogliati • Emanuela Fanelli • Maria Chiara Giannetta • Claudia Pandolfi
1h 37m • Rated M • Comedy, Romance • Italy • In Italian with Eng subs
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Somebody to Love (Follemente)
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The result is a comedy that feels both inventive and deeply recognisable. As competing impulses — logic versus desire, confidence versus insecurity — play out in real time, the film finds humour in the universal experience of overthinking connection. There’s a lightness to its touch, but also a sharp observational edge, capturing the vulnerability and hope that come with putting yourself out there. It’s easy to see why audiences have embraced it: charming, smart and effortlessly entertaining, Somebody to Love lands as exactly the kind of crowd-pleasing, date-night cinema it sets out to be.
Film Notes
A witty, inventive rom-com that lets the heart and mind argue it out.
Italy’s biggest box office hit of 2025 takes a familiar setup — the first date — and gives it a clever, playful twist. Somebody to Love unfolds over a single evening between Piero, a philosophy professor, and Lara, a furniture restorer, but the real action happens inside their heads. Borrowing the idea of a Greek chorus and giving it a contemporary spin, the film populates their thoughts with personified emotions, each pulling in different directions as attraction, doubt and instinct collide. It’s a structure that allows the film to explore the awkward, funny and often chaotic inner world that sits just beneath even the most ordinary romantic encounter.