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Yen Tan 2007

Categories: Features

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Run time: 87 min. | US

Lovers may come and go—but emails live forever. After the death of his former lover Mark, Jeff (Adam Neal Smith) reads through old emails to clean up Mark’s affairs. There are more than a thousand emails in which Mark has been corresponding with men from all over the world, but one particular exchange—with an Italian man named Andrea (co-writer Alessandro Calza)—emerges as more intimate, more charged, and somehow deeper than the others. After discovering that Andrea is about to fly to Dallas to visit Mark, Jeff initially tells the Italian not to come, then reconsiders. At first, the two men are linked only by their relationship with the deceased, but over the next three days they find their interaction gradually shifting from shared grief to mutual attraction. Devoid of splashy dramatics, CIAO’s naturalistic dialogue provides a new look at the art of saying hello and the pain of saying goodbye.

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