Matchmakers (Agente Matrimoniale)

Italian comedy about two young, big-hearted but slightly clutzy guys, who decide that a fortune can be made from helping everyday people meet and marry the person of their dreams.

Giovanni, a thirty-something Sicilian, somewhat introverted and with a dog phobia, loses his job in Milan and is forced to return to Catania, the hometown he had left to seek his fortune. Despite having an excellent professional background, he decides to reluctantly accept a job offer by a former university classmate, Filippo. The offer is to work for a matchmaking agency called 'Non + Soli' ('No Longer Alone'), where Filippo has come up with his own approach to finding one’s mate: the 'Cyrano Method'. The approach is founded on coaching candidates, unlikely to find a match based on their own credentials, to acquire personal or professional features attractive to the women selected as potential mates: A sheep farmer becomes a poet, a lawyer is turned into a vegetarian, a pastry shop baker into a micro-chip factory owner.

But where do they go to receive the same assistance? To each other of course - though this method backfires, as Giovanni finds himself unwittingly becoming a pawn of this methodology. Full of laughs, the film is stacked with lots of fun vignettes of Italian life. (Source: Italian Film Festival)

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