2004, Running time: 100min
Directed by Matteo Garrone and starring Michela Cescon & Vitaliano Trevisan
Nominated for 5 David Di Donatello Awards including Best Actress
Berlin Film Festival Nomination for Golden Bear (Best Film)

FIRST LOVE is an atmospheric and tense thriller about fixation, from director Matteo Garrone (THE EMBALMER). Twenty-five-year-old Sonia (Michela Cescon), a shop assistant and artist's model, meets austere, thirty-something goldsmith Vittorio (Vitaliano Trevisan) on a blind date. As they visually appraise each other, it's clear Vittorio is distracted by Sonia's body shape. What follows is a preoccupied and obsessive love affair revolving around Sonia's weight, almost a reciprocal massacre game involving food regimes. In a small tower in the hills, the two lovers isolate themselves, progressively losing touch with reality and the rest of the world. Based on astonishing true events.