The Ladies Get Their Say

The Ladies Get Their Say (original title: Due Partite) is a 2009 Italian movie directed by Enzo Monteleone and based on a screenplay written by Cristina Comencini. It is divided in two parts: the first one focuses on a group of four ladies in the late '60s, who gather every Thursday to play cards and talk about their lives; the second one details a game played by their daughters in the present days, after


 * Double Standard: Luckily averted, especially when concerning adultery.
 * Four-Temperament Ensemble: More evident in the first part. Beatrice is Sanguine (with Supine traits), Sofia is Choleric, Claudia is Melancholic, and Beatrice is Phlegmatic.
 * Housewife
 * Lamarck Was Right: Both Claudia and her daughter Cecilia are the ones with the strongest maternal side. Plus
 * Minimalism: There are only two settings (two living rooms) for the whole movie, the only exception being a very short scene  Plus, the plot can be summed up as: "Four women gather to play cards and discuss. So do their daughters, thirty years later."
 * Real Time: Each one of the two parts.
 * Time Skip: About thirty years.
 * Tsundere: Sofia.
 * Your Cheating Heart
 * Your Cheating Heart