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Follow Your Heart (Italian: Va' dove ti porta il cuore) is a 1996 Italian romantic drama film written and directed by Cristina Comencini. It is based on the novel with the same name by Susanna Tamaro.
For her performance Virna Lisi won a Globo d'oro and a Nastro d'Argento for best actress.
Plot
The film follows the unhappy lives of three generations of women – Olga, her late daughter Ilaria and her granddaughter Marta – as recounted by Olga in a letter she is writing to Marta before dying. Written in the form of a diary, the letter is an attempt to expiate the family trauma in order to free Marta from the misery she appears destined to.
Olga starts by recalling her childhood and her first clashes with her middle-class parents as a teenager. She has an affair with a married man, whose identity she does not disclose, falling pregnant with Ilaria shortly before his death. Her daughter also grows up as a turbulent young woman, developing a conflictual relationship with her mother which further deteriorates as she returns from a trip to Turkey pregnant with Marta. During a fight, Olga reveals to Ilaria the identity of her father, upsetting her to the point that, as she drives away, she crashes her car into a tree and is killed.
Through the love she expresses in the letter, Olga manages to relieve Marta's burdensome familial legacy, allowing her to "go where her heart takes her".
Cast
Virna Lisi as Olga
Margherita Buy as young Olga
Sara Sanvincenti as child Olga
Galatea Ranzi as Ilaria
Massimo Ghini as Augusto
Tchéky Karyo as Ernesto
Valentina Chico as Marta
Lavinia Guglielman as child Marta
Luigi Diberti as Olga's father
Anna Teresa Rossini as Olga's mother
Valeria Sabel as Elsa Razman
Maria Grazia Bon as Marta's nanny
Stefania Graziosi
Francesca Bortolotti
Stefano Galante
Gianfranco Saletta
References
External links
Follow Your Heart at IMDb
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