 Incantato is a dazzling comedy with a poignant
streak set in the Rome and Bologna of the 1920s. It tells the
story of Nello Balocchi, 35, a shy and clumsy man devoted to
the academic world, sent by his father - a pragmatic businessman
and womanizer who happens to be the Pope's tailor - to teach
at a high school in Bologna in the hope that living in such an
emancipated city will allow him to find a wife at last, thus
giving the family its eagerly awaited heir.
On reaching Bologna,
Nello goes
to live in a "pensione" run by Arabella where
he shares a room with a Neapolitan barber, thanks to whose advice
he gradually gets to know the fairer sex. While he discovers
that he has a great talent for teaching, the search for a soul
mate is unsuccessful. Until the day he finds himself at a tea
dance in a home for blind women, by chance or sent there by Providence.
There, Nello meets a "femme fatale", Angela Gardini,
the most beautiful and open-minded young woman in all Bologna,
who turns his life upside down. This marks the start of an unusual
relationship between the candid, inexperienced man and the gorgeous
woman who has lost her eyesight in an accident. An unpredictable
love story between two "outsiders".
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