Timoteo is a successful surgeon and at the hospital one day his daughter comes for surgery right after suffering a motorcycle accident. He is married and has a beautiful wife but she doesn't want to have a baby because she is not ready. Timoteo is helped by a woman from a poor neighborhood and let him into her house to make a phone call, but he take advantage of her and has many adventures with her until he begins to fall in love with her and is willing to give up his wife and devote totally to her. Chance makes that his mistress remains pregnant but makes abortion and his wife also remains pregnant and now finds himself in a very difficult situation for he will have to choose between the two women.It's a good drama with a difficult role for Penelope Cruz but here show us that she is a great class actress and she is talented enough to be able to enter into character.The Director who also plays the main character gives evidence of a extraordinary talent because he manages to combine love with tragedy and done so well that this film is impossible not to move you.

other than a very beautiful face (which ain't quite so good looking as it once was) that gets her jobs in fashion magazines slathered with makeup, what qualities does Ms Cruz have to get her on the big screen so often? her multilingual ability? maybe thats it. doing films in 4 different languages would increase the number of scripts available.maybe its those perky tits she likes to show off numerous times.this film was a definite disappointment. Im glad the local library has a big selection because if I had rented this one I would demand a refund.it jumps all over the place in location and date, full of surprises ie too much of an average thing, and is way too loaded with symbolism and lacks dialog which EXPLAINS wtf is going on in the film. gee, kinda like how is the viewer supposed to know what the message was in that scene/film if it lacks audio/visual CLUES ????? 'dont move' is said once in the film and has no bearing on the story, so what exactly is the story?

Everybody praised already Penélope Cruz and she really deserves all the praising. I won't go any further into that. Mr. Castellitto is a good enough actor, although far from a Vittorio Gassman or a Laurence Olivier, as some of the other commentators seem to think. These movie doesn't make too much sense, does it? The surgeon's wife is almost too beautiful to be true, refined, lots of class, very sexy, gorgeous teeth, etc. His home is above average, his lifestyle too. They seem to have a good relationship and good sex together. Just because he drank a bit of vodka he goes and rapes a cheap, humble (bad teeth, bad breath?), disheveled and quite unappetizing woman, while she just stands there, glued to the wall and with her arms down her side, actually quite bored really during his doings.In the meantime he labors frantically to remove her clothes, like from a dummy, because she is stiff as a board. Eventually he falls in love with her (why?!). She falls in love with him (why?!). Fortunately movies still don't offer smells, because if they did, I'm sure this poor woman didn't smell of roses..., at a certain point she gets ticks too...(what else?!). I only saw two movies with Mr. Castellito, and coincidentally he cries in both of them quite a lot, preferably in close ups and for a long time. Is that what passes for fabulous acting?! Well. Eventually this poor woman dies --best thing could ever have happened to her, poor thing (and to us, after two long hours!!), because throughout the whole movie she couldn't have been more miserable (Bad mascara, bad hair, cheap clothes, raped when in her teens by her own perspiring father, a real mess!!)-- and he resigns himself to her death after looking a lot outside a hospital window and having plenty of close ups.It also rains a lot in several scenes soaking the leading couple to the bone --wet hair sticking to their faces, etc. --making the photography very arty I suppose. Many contributors commented on the "torrid" sex scenes..., my, my..., when will the movie makers will realize that photographing two people making whoopee is not something as exciting and sexy as they seem to think? I don't mind at all ME doing it between four walls, but seating there watching others do it on the screen..., it leaves me completely limp.If they would leave that action to our imagination, the scene would be infinitely more suggestive. But they have to show everything for the ticket price, don't they? Well, I suppose there are plenty of Peeping Toms out there that do not agree with me.When the rain stops and he gets tired of looking through the window, he picks up one of the red shoes ("Wizzard of Oz" anyone?) that the poor woman lost a long time ago (it seems they were a bit large for her feet), puts it into a plastic bag, goes outside and after kissing this old shoe --yuk!-- he deposits it in the middle of the hospital back yard, turns away from camera and walks into the horizon (the red shoe remains in close up all this time). End of the movie. And a veeeeeery loooooong movie my friends!! From beginning to end, the music is simply execrable. Only for slightly inebriated people or high on something (or worse).

"Non ti muovere", is an excellent movie that made me shiver! Its a mixture of extremely talented actors, with outstanding snapshots and very touchy scenes... what mostly caught my eyes is certainly the extreme real depiction of reality; how things flow in such a real & drastic way as if in real life not in movie where usually reality is altered! Penelope Cruz is very powerful in showing her emotions, so much that the viewer is directly involved. Its such a true story about love and life's choices and how one can spend his whole lifetime seeking to give a certain meaning in his life, though sometimes in vain! its a must-see movie for all the deep and consistent movies lovers!