- In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- Matteo is thirty years old, has a master's degree in mathematics, but since he has to make a living, he works on a fixed-term contract in the marketing department of a telecommunications company that is in the process of cutting back on staff. His girlfriend has left him and they are now only two roommates who are equally impecunious in paying the rent of an apartment that is as sinister as it is expensive.
The arrival of two young women could solve all his problems. The blonde Angelica is the new marketing director. Attractive and dynamic, she discovers in Matteo the makings of a future manager and offers him a promotion abroad. It requires some thought.
In the meantime, the new roommate, the brunette Beatrice, solves the rent problem. She is a young temporary teacher, calm and thoughtful, who discovers in Matteo a gentle and sensitive person. As a result, Matteo is faced with a much more serious problem, one that could affect his entire life.
"Matteo comments on the decision of one of his unemployed friends to leave Milan and return to his parents' home in Molise: "Our era is the only one in which children live worse than their parents. Thirty years old, brilliant studies, a passion for math and statistics, he only found a poorly paid temporary job in a marketing department. Matteo is one of the many representatives of the Generazione mille euro, the film by Massimo Venier, freely adapted from the eponymous novel born from the blog by Antonio Incorvaia and Alessandro Rimassa.
Generazione mille euro is far from Ken Loach's It's a Free World, which told the story of flexibility and precariousness in a realistic and dramatic way, as many precarious people really live it. But Massimo Venier, known for having directed most of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo's films, specifies that everyone must use the tools they know. And he adds that he has a weakness for comedy mixed with bitterness and irony.
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