L'uomo che ama (2008)

Roberto is a mild-mannered, forty-something pharmacist who is involved in an intense relationship with Sara. However, she decides to leave him when he happens to discover that she had seen an ex again, whom she was probably still in love with. He is devastated and tries several times to meet her, only to be rejected because she does not love him. Even the owner of the pharmacy where he works notices how desperate he is and gives him some pills to help him sleep. In the second part of the film, Roberto is with Alba, a beautiful woman who genuinely loves him and works on installations for art exhibitions. This love story does not actually take place after the one with Sara, but before it: it is the relationship Roberto had before meeting Sara, which ended at Roberto’s initiative when, after three years of living together, he realized he no longer loved her. At the end of the film, we see what happened after his relationship with Alba: the moment Roberto meets Sara and the beginning of their love story. Alongside the two sides of Roberto—the abandoned, suffering man and the man who does the abandoning—the film tells the happy story of his parents and follows the events in the life of his brother Carlo, who is gay, is also involved in an intense love affair, and must face a delicate personal problem.