With or Without You (2021 film)

{{Short description|2021 Italian film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = With or Without You

| image = With or Without You (2021 film).jpg

| director = Stefano Sardo

| screenplay = Stefano Sardo
Valentina Gaia

| starring = Guido Caprino
Elena Radonicich

| music = Andrea Bergesio
Valentina Gaia

| cinematography = Gergely Pohárnok

| editing = Sarah McTeigue

| producer = Matteo Rovere
Stefano Sardo
Andrea Paris
Ines Vasiljevic

|distributor =

| released = {{Film date|2021|9|6|Venice}}

| country =

| language = Italian

| budget =

}}

With or Without You (Italian: Una relazione) is a 2021 Italian romantic drama film co-written and directed by Stefano Sardo, at his feature film debut. It premiered at the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival.

== Plot ==

{{No plot|date=June 2024}}

== Cast ==

• Guido Caprino as Tommaso
• Elena Radonicich as Alice
• Libero De Rienzo as Luca
• Thony as Antonia
• Enrica Bonaccorti as Laura
• Luigi Diberti as Giorgio Scorza
• Tommaso Ragno as Rigoni
• Jalil Lespert as Mathieu
• Francesca Chillemi as Nicole Santini
• {{Interlanguage link|Daniela Piperno|it}} as Bianca

== Production==

The film was conceived about 10 years before its production and is based on the autobiographical novel with the same name written together by Stefano Sardo and singer-songwriter Valentina Gaia, which recounts in diary form the crisis and end of their 17-year-long romantic relationship.{{cite news |last1=Finos |first1=Arianna |title=Venezia 78, 'Una relazione', dalla realtà al film: così gli ex raccontano la fine dell'amore |url=https://www.repubblica.it/dossier/spettacoli/venezia-2021/2021/08/20/news/venezia_78_una_relazione_-314614482/ |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=la Repubblica |date=20 August 2021 |language=it}}{{cite news |last1=Stefanini |first1=Simone |title="Una relazione": storia di una generazione diventata vecchia senza nemmeno accorgersene |url=https://www.rockit.it/articolo/una-relazione-storia-generazione-diventata-vecchia-senza-nemmeno-accorgersene |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=Rockit.it |date=29 September 2021|language=it-IT}}{{cite news |last1=Angeleri |first1=Francesca |title=Così la fine di una relazione diventa un romanzo e un film (presentato a Venezia) |url=https://torino.corriere.it/cultura/21_settembre_02/cosi-fine-una-relazione-diventa-romanzo-film-presentato-venezia-f1a6a380-0bc7-11ec-a022-b610359699dd.shtml |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=Corriere della Sera |date=9 February 2021 |language=it}} The shootings of the film started in Rome in October 2020.{{cite news |last1=Borgogno |first1=Cristina |title=Gira un film e ha pubblicato un disco nel 2020. Il piccolo miracolo di Valentina Gaia |url=https://www.lastampa.it/topnews/edizioni-locali/cuneo/2020/11/01/news/gira-un-film-e-ha-pubblicato-un-disco-nel-2020-il-piccolo-miracolo-di-valentina-gaia-1.39488235/ |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=La Stampa |date=1 November 2020 |language=it}}

== Release==

The film had its premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, in the Giornate degli Autori sidebar. It was theatrically released in Italy by Ascent Film on 13 September 2021.

== Reception==

The film has been described as "a beautiful and delicate first work imbued with the love for storytelling and music."{{cite news |last1=Sibilla |first1=Gianni |title=Dai Mambassa al cinema e ritorno: Stefano Sardo racconta "Una relazione" |url=https://www.rockol.it/news-725237/una-relazione-film-amazon-prima-mambassa-stefano-sardo-guido-caprino |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=Rockol |date=5 October 2021 |language=it}}