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| | PDGV : News and events: Review: Italy's 'The Manual of Love' is a frothy, enjoyable cappuccino. |
 | | When Giovanni Veronesi’s film ‘The Manual of Love’ started, for me, there was the awful sense that the film would be overladen with narration, but gradually the camera moved around a woman reading, into a microphone, a segment of a C.D. book she is recording, chapter by chapter. |
 | | In this somewhat old-fashioned genre, it covers the stages of love in today’s world, underlining the tensions and pressures faced by each character, whether pivotal or supporting. |
 | | In each of the four segments love is examined, from ‘Falling in Love’, ‘The Crisis’, ‘The Betrayal’ and ‘The Abandonment’ with many laughs along the way. |
| www.pdgv.com.au /news/2006-03-10_00.html (561 words) |
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