“The references to films by Woody Allen seem obvious, but young documentary maker turned fictional filmmaker Francesco Amato manages to find his own Italian way to Jewish comedy, expanding the field of reference not only to the Marx and Coen brothers, Mel Brooks, and sophisticated writers of the likes of Lubitsch, but to Italian comedy of once upon a time as well.” (Cineuropa)

The fabulous Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty) plays Elia, a strictly Freudian Jewish psychoanalyst with an austere and detached manner. He lives alone in a flat on the same floor as his ex-wife, Giovanna, with whom he is secretly still madly in love. When his doctor prescribes an iron-rich diet and physical activity in an effort to get him to lose some weight, Elia heads to unfamiliar territory—the gym—where he meets the irresistible Claudia, a personal trainer with a zany personality and an impressive physique, who is nothing like anyone he’s met before.