Ho voglia di te (film)

Ho voglia di te (transl. I want you) is a 2007 film, directed by Luis Prieto, based on a novel of the same name by Federico Moccia, debuted on 9 March 2007 . The film is the sequel to Three Steps Over Heaven. The main actor is Riccardo Scamarcio as Step and the main actress is Laura Chiatti, playing the role of Gin. Another important role is the one of Babi, played by Katy Louise Saunders.

Plot

After spending two years in America to forget Babi, getting away from his mother and trying not to think about the death of his best friend Pollo, Step returns to Rome, aware that everything can start over again. For an unexpected silly, he will know the extravagant and exuberant Geneva Biro called Gin, a girl who in one of the last scenes of the film, finds out that Step had long been behind Step and had always been in love with him, even before Step knew Babi. The two will live a love story made of ups and downs, but when Step is invited to a party with old friends, he meets Babi again, grown up and beautiful, bringing him close to their first time. Step understands to make a mistake and so confesses to Babi that he has fallen in love with another. The latter confessed to Step that he wanted to see him saying that in a few months he would get married. Step confesses to Gin that he has seen Babi and so Gin feeling betrayed and disappointed leaves Step. But in the end, trying to really love her, Step manages to forgive her with a wonderful picture of their kiss in front of the girl's house, followed by the words "Ho voglia di te".

Reception and critical

Upon release, the film was the subject of controversy for the explicit sex scene between Riccardo Scamarcio and Laura Chiatti and the scene of sexual violence involving Eleonora.

Critic Paolo Mereghetti called the film an example of non-cinema.

Differences between the film and the novel

The film presents some substantive differences and omissions relative to the novel.

• At the beginning of the film there is no mention of Step's encounter with the hostess on the plane and their subsequent sex relationship in the hotel.
• In the novel, Step encounters Gin about a month after his return, not the first night as mentioned in the film.
• In the novel, the boy Daniela wants to lose virginity is Chicco Brandelli, but in the film his name is Marco Flamini (Babi's former boyfriend in the book Three Meters Above the Sky).
• Paul, Step's brother, does not admit that he also knew of the betrayal of his mother (he had mentioned it in Three Meters Above the Sky).
• In the book there is no reference to Chloe's motion while in the movie Step will compete for re-launch.
• Babi's father does not have a lover, his wife continues to suspect but in reality her husband simply goes to billiards in his evening outings. In fact, in the book, the lover really does exist and is called Francesca, a color girl he met in the room where in the first book he took Step for a chat and for which he would leave his wife at the end of the book.
• In Gin's book, he is subjected to an attempted violence by the two camerino authors, where he will step out by killing two of his colleagues, in the film is Eleonora's friend to undergo it by one author during the party organized for the program. As a result, the trip that Step's leader gave him and Gin as a prize for denouncing the authors was missed.
• Marcantonio and Eleonora are together at the end of the film.
• There is no mention of the friendship relationship between Step and Gin's mother.
• Step's father's new girlfriend is not mentioned.
• In the book we talk about the little girl (daughter of the nurse) fascinated by Step's old love story, there is no girl in the movie or the girl's mother. Gin in the book thought of waiting for a child and discovering the last relationship between Step and Babi in the Church.
• In the book as a "goliardic gesture" Step writes "I want you" in front of Gin's house. In the film, the gesture is made by the writers even more goliardic, the same text covers much of Tiberina Island.
• Gin is a virgin in the novel, which is not mentioned in the film.

Soundtrack

The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was composed by Ivan Iusco and mixed at Forum Music Village. "Ho Voglia Di Te" soundtrack was released in March 2007 on CD including a selection of 20 tracks.

Tracklist

1. Ti scatterò una foto (Tiziano Ferro)
2. Cold water (Damien Rice)
3. Hear me out (Frou Frou)
4. La paura che... (Tiziano Ferro)
5. Hold on (Good Charlotte)
6. The passenger (Iggy Pop)
7. Lovelight (Robbie Williams)
8. Coming Around Again (Simon Webbe)
9. Love is blindness (Cassandra Wilson)
10. Danza nel buio (La Menade)
11. Tarantula (Faithless)
12. So far (Ivan Iusco)
13. Adventures (Ivan Iusco)
14. Ho voglia di te (Ivan Iusco)
15. Missing you (Ivan Iusco)
16. Me and the amplifier (Ivan Iusco)
17. The race (Ivan Iusco)
18. The strange stone (Ivan Iusco)
19. So far (Reprise) (Ivan Iusco)
20. Over the sky (Ivan Iusco)

Remake

Just like in the first film, in 2012, a remake of the film, titled Tengo ganas de ti, was made. The film have a Spanish production directed by Fernando González Molina and played by Mario Casas, Clara Lago and María Valverde.

Trivia

• The film also appears in a cameo, Thomas De Gasperi and Matteo Maffucci of the Italian music duo Zero Absoluto (on the TV show where Gin enters the envelope) and the singer Francesco Sarcina, the latter visible in the scene where Step gives a punch to one of the TV producers who tried to rap Eleonora.
• The final monologue pronounced by Step is by Ago Panini.