# Melissa P. (2005)

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**Runtime**: 100 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Luca Guadagnino
**Written by**: Luca Guadagnino, Cristiana Farina, Barbara Alberti
**Starring**: María Valverde, Letizia Ciampa, Primo Reggiani, Fabrizia Sacchi, Geraldine Chaplin, Claudio Santamaria

> *You have to lose yourself before you can find yourself.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Teenage desperation meets 1970s Italian excess. A girl navigates first sex under her mother’s roof. Luca Guadagnino turns it into a hazy, tactile portrait of youth’s brutal honesty.

**Mood tags**: raw, tender

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