Catherine Keener (Genova) on Colin Firth:

Firth is probably the most reserved English actor in the business. Is he like that off screen?

"He is a little. Is that particularly English? He's very honest, especially if you say something idiotic, which I do a lot.

He'll just look at me like, 'Twerp.'

I found him hysterically funny.

I have the biggest crush on him, then I found out everyone else does, too, because of his Mr Darcy, which I'd never seen.

I realised I didn't discover this new sex bomb at all. And his wife - she's even hotter than Colin!"

The Guardian, 26 March 2009

Summary:

Colin Firth is playing a British guy who has been living in America for 20 years. He’s got two daughters, who are 12 and 15, but they've been in a car crash with their mother and she has died.

It starts just after that, as they leave America and go to Genoa for a year, where he will lecture in university. But they're sort of in limbo – they've left America and their friends and they're waiting to start their new life in Italy – it’s August and everyone is on holiday, so they have a month before they start just to hang out in the summer.

Basically, it’s about three people in limbo before they start their new life.

Pic is co-financed by the U.K.'s Film4, with Hanway handling foreign sales.

Colin Firth, Catharine Keener and Michael Winterbottom

Directed by:

Michael Winterbottom                  

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Some Information courtesy of The Internet Movie Database

Press Conference Film "Genova" 2007 (in Italian).