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MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA'S "TRICK" IS A FEATURED L.A. ITALIA FESTIVAL FLICK.ON FRIDAY 5th AT MANN CHINESE 6 THEATRE LOS ANGELES, 03/05/10 - Yhe World Premiere of "The Trick in the Sheet" Directed by Alfonso Arau. Starring Geraldine Chaplin and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. Produced by Maria Grazia Cucinotta. World Distribution Intramovies, Italy ABOUT THE MOVIE: Federico is studying medicine quite unsuccessfully because of his continuous fainting at the very vision of blood. Against the will of his mother, Federico quite University and searches for the idea to make his first film. Close to the city, in the surroundings of a small volcano lake, lives in a kind of primitive and absolute freedom, Marianna, a young woman of amazing beauty, poor and illiterate, but full of life. Beatrice is beautiful, refined, rich and unmarried. Federico, charmed by her beauty, asks her to become the actress of his movie: “I want you to be immortal”! One morning, while Beatrice is still asleep, Federico leans outside the window and cannot believe what he is actually seeing: her Susanna, just like he had dreamed her… Marianna, unaware of being spied, is undressing by the shore, and is about to throw herself into the water. Federico tries to come close to her, but she cannot understand his talking about the cinematograph and misjudges him, thinking that he wants to abuse her. While Federico is a big success, the life of Marianna is upset, as she has to cope with troubles larger than herself.