Marco Bocci and Laura Chiatti recreated that magic by acting together in If I were you, a delightful modern fairy tale which, despite starting from an idea already seen – a man and a woman exchanging bodies like Wife & Husband with Kasia Smutniak and Pierfrancesco Favino -, manages to convince thanks to a excellent narrative development and, above all, thanks to two well written and interpreted characters. They are Valentina Sangiorgi and Massimo Mancuso, both survivors of bereavement and both struggling with a problem to solve: Valentina tries to carve out her place in the family business hoping to be taken seriously by her gruff and heartless father and Massimo fights in that same company to obtain an advance on severance pay to save the life of his son, suffering from the same heart malformation that took his wife away from him four years earlier. Obviously they hate each other and don’t understand each otherand obviously they find themselves sharing each other’s lives while learning more about themselves and those around them.
Marco and Laura in this unpretentious project directed by Luca Lucini e Simona Ruggeri and written by Andrea Valagussa and Valerio D’Annunzio, demonstrate that they are two talents who manage to dance together, and this was not at all obvious, because it is they who give If I were you that warmth and vibrant energy that makes watching so pleasant and tasty. The series, in addition to playing on the exchange of roles declined both on the male and female level and on that of wealth and poverty (a great classic), in fact, it has the merit of making us laugh and make us think because it often takes an external look to understand what is wrong in our life and needs to be straightened out. Laura Chiatti’s Valentina and Marco Bocci’s Massimo manage, perhaps without even too much awareness, to fix what wasn’t working properly in each other’s lives, and in a historical period so full of bad news like this, following a story so full of tenderness and love is a real caress.
