Il corpo dell'anima

Il corpo dell'anima 6.5
  • Genre: Plot
  • Premiere: 1999
  • Running time: 1h 45m
  • Country: Italy

Ernesto, a 64-year-old childless writer, has lived alone in a large apartment in Rome since his wife died. The silent and unsociable Ernesto is willing to live the life he chooses. Although Ernesto hadn't written for a while, he accepted an offer from a director to start writing a play about Mother Teresa's life. Because his part-time Filipino maid quit his job, he hired Luana, a young woman who worked nearby. Luana is a girl from a slum, uneducated but full of vitality and passion, capable and equally sexy and unruly. Ernesto also began to open his heart to her, though at first he had a contradictory emotion: infatuation and disgust. Soon, however, they became lovers. Ernesto persuaded her to work at his house longer. But as their relationship became closer, Luana became sexually eccentric and arrogant. Jealous Ernesto tries to seduce her and just wants to keep her by her side. But she...