Foreign trailer for A Five Star Life.
The remarkable Margherita Buy – who won the David di Donatello award (the Italian Oscar®) for this performance – is utterly compelling as Irene, a blithely solipsistic single woman in her 40s whose job consists of sternly and fastidiously evaluating, and roundly criticizing, European five-star hotels and resorts. Oblivious to the sterile emptiness of her existence — an emptiness that is treated with equal doses of humor and pathos by director Maria Sole Tognazzi’s expert hand — Irene finally begins to question things when confronted by her only friend Andrea’s (Stefano Accorsi) news that he has gotten his latest one-night stand pregnant. Her initial response is to take on even more work, but a trip to Morocco may end up changing her self-administered solitary life.