The Fall

Violence against women in personal relationship: in Is it About Love? three men looking for a change speak out. Paolo, Luca and Giorgio (all pseudonyms) were violent with their wife or partner, but their violence frightened them, also because the woman who endured it were expecting a change. Their violence wasn't bloody, it wasn't the kind we hear about on TV or read about in the papers, but the pain they inflicted on themselves and their families was nonetheless severe. Paolo, Luca and Giorgio are three "normal" men, like all of us. Their stories are of every day life, yet deeply unsettling. These three men are different in age, origins and personality - but their lives are tied by one common problem, which brought them to cross paths in the palace where they went searching for help: the LDV center (Let's free ourselves from Violence) in Modena. But the film is not a documentary about the therapy, nor about the LDV center, is the tale of three men, gathered by three women who interviewed them. The dramatic development of the film is focused on the moment in which the three men's lives "exploded" and their violence was experienced and recognized. The journey of the protagonists takes place through the landscapes and environments of their stories, the interiors of their everyday lives, and an imaginary space, domestic but dreamlike at the same time, where the three men question themselves among suspended objects and under intermittent lighting - here they compare the personal and cultural motivations of their violence and their reflections concerning their personal difficulties with her wife, partner and children. Paolo, Luca and Giorgio all have on open challenge ahead. the effort to change, to listen to themselves and to others, which perhaps will last a lifetime, and which will involve their partners as well; a reflection on conflict in relationship and the sentimental education that affect us all, men and women alike.