Director: Cristina Comencini

Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Stabilini

Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Alessio Boni, Stefania Rocca, Angela Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Battiston, Luigi Lo Cascio, Francesca Inaudi, Valerio Binasco

Screen Play: Cristina Comencini, Francesca Marciano, Giulia Calenda

Director of Photography: Fabio Cianchetti

Music: Franco Piersanti

Year: 2005

Duration: 120 min.

Genre: Drama

Awards: 9 wins & 13 nominations

Best Supporting Actress (Angela Finocchiaro ): David Donatello
Best Supporting Actress (Angela Finocchiaro), Best Producer, Best Cinematografy: Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Nominated Best Foreign Language Film: Academy Awards
Nominated Best Actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), Best Supporting Actress (Stefania Rocca), Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, David of the Youth (Cristina Comencini): David Donatello

MPAA Rating: R

Official Italian Web Site: http://www.labestianelcuore.it/

Trailer: http://www.filmitalia.org/popvideo.asp?vid=8505

Print Source: SWANK Motion Pictures, Inc.

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Sabina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) is beautiful, enjoys her job and loves her boyfriend, but is she truly happy? For some time now strange nightmares have tormented her, and finding herself pregnant forces open a disquieting window onto her own inner life: her memories, her adolescence, her family, bourgeois rituals at once both strict and reassuring. But these are only the surface. From deep down something much darker and more disturbing is about to be revealed. From the novel by Cristina Comencini, with the same name.