Gasoline is a 2001

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 Italian

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 crime film

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 directed by Monica Stambrini. It is based on a novel by Elena Stancanelli.

Plot

A young lesbian

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 couple, Stella and Lenni, go on the run after the accidental death of Lenni's mother.

Cast

• Maya Sansa
  Maya Sansa
  -Biography:Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was...
  
   as Stella
• Regina Orioli as Lenni
• Mariella Valentini as Madre di Eleonora
• Luigi Maria Burruano as Padre Gabriele
• Chiara Conti as Pippi
• Marco Quaglia as Sandro
• Pietro Ragusa as Filippo

Reception

Gasoline was nominated for the Prize of the City of Torino at the 2001 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema and the Outstanding Film award at the 2004 GLAAD Media Awards

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Kevin Thomas, writing for the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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praised the lead actors but said the film was "too derivative and sensational for its own sake to work."