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Nasty Love () (released in the United States as Troubling Love) is a 1995 Italian thriller film directed by Mario Martone. It was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name, by Elena Ferrante. The film was shot mainly in Naples, Italy.
The fragmentary reconstruction of the last days of her mother's life bring to light remote events that Delia had hidden and buried in her memory, and force her to contemplate a reality different from what she had hitherto understood. Delia remembers and relives the moment when, under the influence of her oppressive father, she breaks her relationship with her mother, accused by her husband of an affair with Caserta.
Finally, Delia recalls what was the cause of everything: as a child, she was subjected to pedophilia by Caserta's father, but she did not report the incident and told her father that her mother and Caserta, who seemed to be nothing more than friends, were lovers (this was also due to a sort of jealousy towards her mother herself); her father, very jealous of his wife whose beauty enchanted many men, began to beat her and, together with her brother-in-law, also Caserta and the latter's son, Antonio. Caserta, as if to "get revenge" on Delia's father, began to send Amalia gifts of all kinds, each time unleashing the fury of her husband, who regularly beat her. Shortly before committing suicide, Amalia resumed her relationship with Caserta, with whom she went for a walk on the beach one evening, and during which she left him, who had fallen asleep in the meantime, letting herself drown.
Delia, having ideally reconciled with her mother, and having become aware that she has more in common with her than she believed or wanted, is ready to return to Bologna with a renewed self-awareness.
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