Melissa P. is a 2005

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 erotic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director. He rose to notability with the 2005 film Melissa P., and he is a frequent collaborator with Tilda Swinton, including the 2010 film I Am Love.-Life and career:...

. It is based on Melissa Panarello

Melissa Panarello

Melissa Panarello , alias Melissa P., is an Italian writer.-Biography:Panarello grew up in the small Sicilian town of Aci Castello, near Catania in Italy...

's semi-autobiographical diary novel, 100 colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire (One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed) which focuses on the narrator's teenage sex life. María Valverde

María Valverde

María Valverde Rodríguez is a Spanish actress.She was born María Valverde Rodriguez in Carabanchel, Madrid. She was 16 when she got a leading role with Luis Tosar in a Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique, she won the 2003 Goya Award for this role.She has also taken part in...

 stars as the protagonist, alongside Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...

 in the Italian-Spanish production. The film was released on 18 November, 2005 in Italy, where it topped the box office.

Plot

Melissa (Valverde) is a shy 15-year-old virgin who feels increasinly distant from her family, her father works on a foreign oil rig and her mother (Sacci) is too preoccupied with her housewife persona to notice when something is wrong with her daughter. The only person that senses Melissa's discomfort is her grandmother, Elvira (Chaplin). However Melissa feels completely isolated when Elvira is carted off to a retirement home.

Melissa's sexual education moves beyond her masturbation to a humiliating oral sex encounter behind the swimming pool with Daniele (Reggiani), the most attractive and wealthy local boy. Despite the less-than-romantic encounter, Melissa's crush for Daniele only increases. She fantasizes about Daniele to encourage an orgasm during gym class. She later loses her virginity, which again is not an idyllic encounter.

Later she engages in a threesome with Daniele and his friend Arnaldo (Germano), fully realizing her sexual power and taking control of her sex life.

Cast

• María Valverde
  María Valverde
  María Valverde Rodríguez is a Spanish actress.She was born María Valverde Rodriguez in Carabanchel, Madrid. She was 16 when she got a leading role with Luis Tosar in a Manuel Martín Cuenca movie, La flaqueza del bolchevique, she won the 2003 Goya Award for this role.She has also taken part in...
  
   as Melissa P.
• Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
  
   as Nonna Elvira
• Primo Reggiani as Daniele
• Fabrizia Sacchi as Daria
• Elio Germano as Arnaldo
• Nilo Mur as Marco
• Letizia Ciampa as Manuela
• Claudio Santamaria
  Claudio Santamaria
  Claudio Santamaria is an Italian actor best known for portraying the terrorist Carlos in Casino Royale 2006....
  
  as Custode del museo
• Pier Giorgio Bellocchio as Istruttore di nuoto
• Marcello Mazzarella as Chiunque