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Ciao Bella
MANI MASERRAT AGAH
In Swedish, Italian, English, and Farsi with English subtitles
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1-800-955-5566
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Ciao Bella
MANI MASERRAT AGAH
In Swedish, Italian, English, and Farsi with English subtitles
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"I bet you have to fight them off with that smile of yours," his mother tells mournful teenager Mustafa (Poyan Karimi), trying to cheer him up after his blond girlfriend ditches him in search of someone "more prominent." A Swede born in Iran, Mustafa masks his feelings of cultural dislocation behind a quiet impassivity. All that changes when he accompanies his high school soccer team to Gothenburg for the annual international Gothia Cup tournament: when a series of very funny misunderstandings result in him playing on the Italian side, he is transformed into Latin lover Massimo by his new and eternally horny teammate Enrico (Oliver Ingrosso). Will the subterfuge doom his blossoming relationship with local girl Linnea (Chanelle Lindelle)? At once knowingly funny and sexually frank, this alternately charming and raunchy debut from director Mani Maserrat Agah is a benevolent, adult look at an international rite of passage.—Eddie Cockrell