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AmeriQua

bologna italy student road movie

AmeriQua is the story of a lazy recent graduate, Charlie (Bobby Kennedy), whose rich parents cut him off with a $5000 check and an ultimatum to start a life of independence and responsibility. Instead, he buys a plane ticket to Italy, gets robbed upon arrival and winds up in Bologna in the care of his new friend Lele (Lele Gabellone), the self-proclaimed King of Bologna, who lives with a scraggly punkabbestia, Ballo (Gianlucca Bazzoli), and the insatiable prostitute frequenter, Il Pisa (Giuseppe Sanfelice). In Bologna, Lele teaches Chrlie the subtle strategies that the King knows so well, namely hitting on Italian women, throwing all-night parties and inciting general anarchy. Charlie takes to it like a pro and in the process meets the dangerously beautiful Valentina (Alessandra Mastronardi) and all-American Jessica (Eva Amurri).

Date of release
2013-02-28
TMDB
3.4 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Marco Bellone, Giovanni Consonni

Casting

Interesting facts

AmeriQua is a 2012 Italian-American romantic comedy road movie filmed in English and Italian, directed by Giovanni Consonni and Marco Bellone, their debut feature, starring Robert F. Kennedy III, who also wrote the original screenplay, loosely based on his experiences during his time in Italy. The film's ensemble cast includes Alessandra Mastronardi, Eva Amurri, Alec Baldwin, and Giancarlo Giannini, as well as non-professional actors.

Production

Robert F. Kennedy III began writing at a young age, winning an award for a screenplay for a film noir in high school: "I was kind of hooked at that point." AmeriQua is the first film derived from a screenplay by Kennedy. It is loosely autobiographical, based on his experiences as a "broke student" in Italy, working various jobs like waiting tables or tending bar to support himself during his study abroad in Bologna in 2005, where he met the "stoc…

Marco Gualtieri's friendship with the Kennedy family arose following his involvement with the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The entertainment entrepreneur was also on the board of the Florence-based Robert F. Kennedy Foundation of Europe. In January 2009, while attending a reception as Ethel Kennedy's guest at the Kennedy house in Washington, D.C.

Kennedy's original screenplay was in English, but it evolved into a macaronic text in English and Italian, as Bologna mystery writer and collaborator Matteo Bortolotti explained:I was involved later, and together with Bobby we worked on mixing our styles, our respective insanity, rewriting everything and enjoying ourselves like crazy. The macaronic English of the Italians is a principal component.

For the project, Gualteri's Jabadoo SRL received €350,000 in support from the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, or 10.3% of its projected budget, in the form of an interest-free loan from the Fondo Unitario per lo spettacolo. Private sponsorship came from Fiat and Jaggy.

Cinematographer Marco Bassano commented that the budget was considerably higher than he was used to, noting they had helicopters and "other things", and that in Italy, one is normally limited to one such kind of equipment.

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