Ex 2: Still Friends (2011) poster
2011 · comedy · music

Ex 2: Still Friends

Directed by Carlo Vanzina1h 38m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.4864
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.

Our read · Ex 2: Still Friends (2011) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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The shape of Ex 2

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What watching it is actually like.

You want light Italian romcom of exes, affairs and mistaken romantic mixups.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnudity

Skip it tonightYou want original stories or hate raunchy relationship farces.

If Ex 2 is your film
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(more dramatic and younger cast)
Manuale d'amore (2005)
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(different directors and more segments)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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