Amanti

Massimiliano Gallo e Fabrizia Sacchi

September. Claudia and Giulio meet for the first time in front of an elevator, in the atrium of a bourgeois building. The doors open. She’s leaving, he has to go up. But Claudia realizes that she forgot a handkerchief on the top and goes back up with Giulio. The apartment they are headed to is the same: they only now discover that both attend the same analyst, doctor Gilda Cioffi, psychotherapist specialized in couple problems. They have a weekly appointment with the doctor every Wednesday: at 3 p.m. and at 4 p.m. It’s their first physical contact. Two months later we find Claudia and Giulio in a hotel room. They are making love. They have become lovers. Both married, Giulio with wife and three children, Claudia with a husband younger than her who is trying to have a child, they meet regularly and clandestinely to be together. And they say it’s just sex, adventure, escape. That they don’t hurt anyone. That space doesn’t really have to do with their real lives. But can it really be so when two people meet repeatedly and pretend to control sex and love? "Lovers" follows the story of the relationship between Giulio and Claudia, interspersing their meetings in the hotel with the dialogues that each of them has with Dr Cioffi, who obviously ignores that her two problematic patients have a relationship between them. So their story is unfolding between the encounters in bed, and the truths or lies that simultaneously tell the doctor, from which they go alone or together with their partners, Laura and Roberto. A temporal progression made of misunderstandings, cheats, false steps, fake presentations, lies, messes, prudence, and even trouble avoided by miracle. Until something upsets the balance. "Amanti" is a new comedy in two acts about love, sex, betrayal and marriage, long-term relationships and long-term adventures, male and female, and ultimately the search for happiness which always takes different paths than those expected. A brilliant and funny comedy, with situations and dialogues that tear laughter, but also an exploration of the feelings of a couple who in clandestinity finds refuge, comfort, fun, but also anxiety, concern, and perhaps danger.