Bangla

[Subtitled] [Plays Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the MSP Film Society's 11th Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis / St. Paul at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.] Nonprofessional actors dominate Phaim Bhuiyan's delightful, charming, factually inspired, well-paced, funny, 84-minute romantic comedy in which a 22-year-old, virginal, aspiring, half-Bengali, Italy-born musician (Phaim Bhuiyan), who works as a museum steward and lives with his strict, traditional, Muslim mother (Nasima Akhter), father, and sister in Rome, thinks about sex all day long, and when he meets and falls hard for a beautiful, carefree Italian student Carlotta Antonelli), he seeks advice from friends (Simone Liberati, Tangir Ahammed Miah, Davide Fornaro, et al.) as he tries to reconcile his religious beliefs and values with his strong attraction to his girlfriend who lives with her divorced father (Pietro Sermonti) after her mother came out as a lesbian.
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