Different from Whom?

{{Infobox film | name = Different from Whom? | image = Different from Whom-703251203-large.jpg | director = Umberto Carteni | producer = | writer = Fabio Bonifacci | starring = {{Plainlist| *Luca Argentero *Claudia Gerini *Filippo Nigro }} | cinematography = Marcello Montarsi | music = Massimo Nunzi | editing = Consuelo Cartucci<ref name=adci/> | studio = Cattleya<ref name=adci>{{cite web|title=Diverso da chi?|website=Archivio del Cinema Italiano|access-date=17 February 2023|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=OPEHHD283212}}</ref> | distributor = Universal Pictures<ref name=adci/> | language = Italian | released = {{Film date|2009|03|20}} | runtime = 100 minutes }} '''''Different from Whom?''''' ({{langx|it|Diverso da chi?}}) is a 2009 Italian comedy film directed by Umberto Carteni.

== Plot == Piero is a young openly gay left-wing politician who lives in Trieste with his boyfriend Remo. During his mayoral election campaign the party decides to also to run Adele, a Catholic and strict conservative politician, as deputy mayor. Piero and Adele will discover to be attracted to each other, causing a stir among the voters and the political opponents, and suddenly turning Piero's boyfriend Remo into the odd man out.

== Cast == * Luca Argentero as Piero * Claudia Gerini as Adele * Filippo Nigro as Remo * Francesco Pannofino as Galeazzo * Giuseppe Cederna as Serafini * Antonio Catania as Corazza * Rinaldo Rocco as Samuele * Paolo Graziosi

== Reception == The film has been cited as an example of sexual fluidity in recent queer European cinema.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dawson |first=Leanne |date=2018 |title=Queer European Cinema: Queering Cinematic Time and Space |location=Abindon, Oxon, UK |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781351711586 }}</ref>

''Different from Whom?'' was criticized by a panelist at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival as a film that was "made for straight audiences" and claimed that the film panders to heterosexuals who are uncomfortable with homosexuality.<ref>{{cite book |last=Richards |first=Stuart James |date=2016 |title=The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics |location=Melbourne, Australia |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |page=111 |isbn=9781137590343 }}</ref>

== Awards == * 2009 - '''Globi d'oro''' ** ''Best First Feature'' to Umberto Carteni ** ''Nomination Best Comedy'' to Umberto Carteni

== See also == * List of Italian films of 2009

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|tt1213638}}

Category:2009 comedy films Category:2009 LGBTQ-related films Category:2009 films Category:2009 directorial debut films Category:Films directed by Umberto Carteni Category:Films set in Trieste Category:Gay-related films Category:2000s political comedy films Category:Italian LGBTQ-related films Category:LGBTQ-related comedy films Category:Films about male bisexuality Category:Italian political comedy films Category:Cattleya films Category:Universal Pictures films