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Learn more- A Socioplay on the Road about 10 forms of Love. Turning point: the wedding of Tinto Brass and Caterina Varzi. Origin of "Bricconaggi" as Perdo/nanda Pivano (2018) and I cani dell'acqua marcia (2018) about Betrayal and Forgiveness. The story comes from the interweaving of three erotic sub-plots and takes place during the "Psychology Festival" of the Order of Psychologists of Lazio (Italy): nine events concentrated in five days. Among the most eccentric activities of the program the Order organizes (with months in advance and very meticulously) L'Amore in Piazza ('Love on the Road') a socioplay directed by Ottavio Rosati in collaboration with the students of the IPOD training school in Psychodrama and Psychocinema. The event should not happen in theaters, clinics, or in television studios as Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) but suddenly explode on the streets or in the squares of Rome. The President of the Psychologist Order, Nicola Piccinini and his right-hand bridle, Pietro Stampa expect something like a Flash-Mob to interrupt the habits of passers-by overcoming the barriers of social life and proposing brief meetings and clashes on the theme of Love. The aim of the Festival is to give to Roman people a friendly and new image of the psychology and its usefulness for the well-being of people and groups. Rosati with the collaboration of Francesco Marzano (executive producer of The Forbidden Fashion (2019)) accepts and proposes to the Order a spin-off of Il rischio della felicità (2011) the format that Ottavio has realized in Siena in 2011 with Luciana Santioli: an interactive socioplay for students with music, plays, parrots, fireworks, bibliographies printed on colored paper, interviews, megaphones, flowers, surprises, unexpected encounters and games in the Piazza del Palio. Apart from the two cities, there are many differences between the outdoor socioplay of Siena and that of Rome. First of all, instead of the couple of Cacatoa parrots Iside and Teto, this time Ottavio will have two nice cockers, mother and daughter at his side: Winnie and Duffy that Julia, wanted instead of the parrots of Ottavio since she lives in his house. Julia does not love birds. Many ingredients to animate the Romans and tourists by staging images, memories or poems on love in the streets of the historic center of Rome are a remake of those that Rosati has already used in Siena. From the point of view of directing and filming, it does not seem easy to challenge the indifference of tourists and bystanders or the irruption of cars and sounds in the historic center of the Capital. Therefore Rosati asks the Order to call the 'Ponentino Trio' a popular group of singers and performers who for years have kept alive the repertoire of the Roman songs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And here someone unleashes an invisible sabotage. The employees of the Order, in charge of printing and distributing the sheets - on their own initiative and without saying anything to anyone - remove from the sheets the box where passersby should indicate their email address to be able to receive an invitation to the final meeting of the event. Big mistake. Later the saboteurs will say they have omitted it so as not to violate the rules on privacy. Only a twist will keep the final appointment and make sense of the socioplay. Rosati decides to dedicate the final meeting to Caterina Varzi (lawyer, ex lover of the famous analyst Aldo Carotenuto and actual Muse of Tinto Brass, actress protagonist of Hotel Courbet (2009) considered among the twenty most erotic films in the history of cinema). Caterina Varzi arrives, dressed as a star, in the premises of the Order where there are only students of the IPOD school. After a long catharsis where she tells her story, her controversial loves and her psychodramas, she concludes the Festival of Psychology announcing her wedding with Tinto Brass the famous Italian director who put playful sexuality at the center of his cinema. Caterina is now his muse. Caterina also saved him after a stroke. The meeting with Caterina, advocate-actress-therapist, arouses many sharing in the group. Once again it is Art that comes to the rescue Psychology. A few months after Ottavio, Francesco, Roberta and other students of the IPOD School will witness the marriage between Brass and Varzi in the country villa of the director. A few months later: real love problems. Julia will abandon everyone, as always in her life: men and dogs. And Ottavio in the same spaces of "L'amore in piazza" between Trastevere and Campo de Fiori, will reveal to everyone his love for Francesco. And his gay jealousy. Even shouting and hugging. Exactly as Shakespeare writes in the phrase quoted by the Order of Psychologists for the Festival: 'Se non ricordi che Amore t'abbia mai fatto commettere la più piccola follia, allora non hai amato' ("As You Like it"). It is a scandal. It is a Coming Out and an Acting Out. It is a catharsis. It is an experiment. It is a play. It is an action of Openness, the contrary of what happened many years before when Ottavio's analyst had a secret sexual relationship with Fabio, Ottavio's partner. This situation becomes the subject of "Le Bimbe Atomiche" (Baby Bombes) the script for a movie. The pitch of L'Amore in Piazza ("between the Order of Psychologists and the Orders of Love" ) is based on a play on words. In Italian 'Order of psychologists' means the bureaucratic institution of the profession. But Order also means command, the injunction of Eros and Cupid. The opposite of putting in order.
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