Who is Who ? - Luisa [8/8]

Name: CONTINI Luisa

Interpreted by : Marion Cotillard

Nationality: French/Italian

Her relation to Guido: His Wife

Her Songs:

My Husband Makes Movies

Take it All

Description: Luisa Contini was a young actress who felt in love with a young director and married him. Since then she is a wife who knows openly about the relationships of her husbund to other women.

Marion Cotillard said about her character "I love Luisa because she’s an authentic lover. She’s more than his wife: she’s his confidante, his best friend. She’s really a person committed to this relationship. She loves him. She lives for him. She stands by her man. What she gave up for him is not painful – what’s painful is how the relationship turned out to be, because she realises that the confidence they used to share is collapsing, and what she lives for is going away"

Who is Who ? - Claudia [7/8]

Name: JENSSEN Claudia

Interpreted by : Nicole Kidman

Nationality: Swedish

Her relation to Guido:His Muse

Her Song: an Unusual Way

Description: Claudia is Guido's muse and star of all of his films. She sings the song "Unusual Way" to describe her complicated feelings for him. He has made her a huge star but she needs to be free of him.

Nicole Kidman said about her character "I think the coupling of Claudia and Guido is very unusual, because they've never slept together and everybody else has - except Sophia Loren and Judi Dench. So having not slept with Guido, that's different - I think they have a spiritual love affaire and that is what the song Unusual Way captures"

Who is Who ? - Guido [6/8]

Name: CONTINI Guido

Interpreted by : Daniel Day Lewis

Nationality: Italian

HIs Work: A film Director

His Song:

I Can't Make This Movie

Guido's song

Description: Guido Contini, famous italian film director, has turned forty and faces a double crises: he has to shoot a film for which he can't write the script, and his wife of twenty years, the film star Luisa, may be about to leave him if he can't pay more attention to the marriage. As he struggles to complete his latest film, he is forced to balance the numerous formative women in his life

Who is Who ? - Stephanie [5/8]

Name: NECROPHUROS Stephanie

Interpreted by : Kate Hudson

Nationality: american

Her relation to Guido: The reporter

Her Song: Cinema Italiano

Description: Stephanie is a Vogue writer in Rome to interview the director

Kate Hudson said about her character "She's a reporter and she is basically obsessed with Guido Contini and wants to seduce him. She's like the go go girl. She's like the modern american girl who is coming into that free-love type thing. Sh just wants to know how contini rolls around in the sack"

Who is Who ? - Mamma [4/8]

Name: Mamma

Interpreted by : Sophia Loren

Nationality: italian

Her relation to Guido:The mother

Her Song: Guarda la Luna

Description: She is the deadmother of Guido

Sophia Loren said about her character "I play the character of the mother of Daniel because Daniel Plays felline. the mother has died and I play the spirit of the mother and she comes in once in a wile throught the whole film to protect her son - like every good, wonderful mother"

Who is Who ? - Saraghina [3/8]

Name: Saraghina

Interpreted by : Stacy Ferguson

Nationality: italian

Her relation to Guido:The whore

Her Song: Be Italian

Description: Saraghina is the woman who first introduced young Guido to sex. In flashback, Guido skips school to go visit the prostitute who teaches him the ways of love. She sings "Ti Voglio Bene/Be Italian.

Stacy Ferguson said about her character "Saraghina is a very earthy character. Everything about her is animal, about feeling. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. She turns tricks for the sailors for cash to make her way but these litlle boys like young Guido she does a little peep show, a soulder here, a leg there. These days, it would probably be going all the way. But the duality of the character is that she has a nurturing relationship with Guidi and the boys. It's almost like the big-sister type of thing"

Who is Who ? - Liliane La Fleur [2/8]

Name: LA FLEUR Liliane

Interpreted by :Judi Dench

Nationality: French

Her relation to Guido:The Confidante

Her Song: Folies Bergere

Description: Liliane is a costume designer who is working with Guido on his latest film. Although he doesn't remember their meeting, he has convinced her that he has a brilliant idea for a musical. When Liliane arrives in Venice to check on his progress, Guido must convince her that the film is well under way even though he hasn't even thought of an idea.

Judi Dench said about her character "She's probably Guido's greatest friend and confidante. She is the person he can completely relax with. tere is nothing of his life thaht she doesn't know. She becomes a kind of quasi-mother, friend person. There is a wonderful set where my work room is and it's obviously a place where is feels he can day anything he wants"

Who is Who ? - Carla Albanèse [1/8]

Name: ALBANESE Carla

Interpreted by : Penelope Cruz

Nationality: Italian

Her relation to Guido: His Mistress

Her Song: A Call from the Vatican

Description: Carla is Guido's mistress. She telephones him in Venice while he is vacationing with his wife, and he must pretend that it is the Vatican calling to confirm his film shoot there. This leads to the song "Call From the Vatican," in which a naked Carla tells Guido all the things she'd like to do to him.

Penelope Cruz said about her character "Carla and Guido's relationship has been going for many years. We don't see where they comme from, but you can imagine that their relationship has been going on five years or longer, and that they have a history together thaht they've been hiding. It's something thaht he doesn't want to let go of, and it makes her suffer a lot because she always hope that it will become something else. But she knows how he is: he's also married"