Directed by Luciano Ligabue – (Italia, 2002 – colore, 99′ min. Drammatico. In Italian with English subtitles
With Stefania Rocca, Fabio Volo, Sara D’Amario, Antonella Troise, Gennaro Nunziante
Angst doesn’t just hit you when you reach 40 – at least not according to From Zero To Ten, where midlife crisis becomes a reality at 36.
Giove (Stefano Pesce) is a (reasonably) happily married man, who believes that from the moment we are born to the second we die, “we exist to give and receive grades”.
He categorises his life as a seven minus, but the weekend over which the action of the film takes place promises to be a nine. This is because he and his friends – Libero (Massimo Bellinzoni), gay doctor Biccio (Pierfrancesco Favino) and perpetual adolescent womaniser Baygon (Stefano Venturi) – are heading to the hedonistic mayhem of Rimini to complete a weekend they never finished 20 years ago.