Fun and sorrows of the contemporary italian life
Added 8/22/2009
This is a film about the contemporary italian family consisting of midlle aged, professional parents who are both working and their teenage children. Each one of them is living numb existance. They are bored, lonely, insecure, unhappy with their jobs/careers or high school existance. They also feed emotionally off each other. Their rages are directed at each other with such force that it almost makes one dizzy.
What they experience and how they come out of those experiences I do not wish to retell in this review. But movie itself is really worth watching in order to find out. Laura Morante gives fantastic performance as a frustrated mother, wife and an artist; but Monica Belucci is just so beautiful that one cannot take their eyes off of her. Someone as beautiful as her is almost expected to steal another woman's man with very little or no effort. I also liked the music score used in this modern day drama where there are no winners and no loosers but an endless string of avalanche like events...
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As good as it gets.
Added 1/7/2008
Ordered , paid , delivered in under two weeks instead of the five as notified.
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I will...
Added 12/12/2007
This is a great film, full of life, emotion and realistic people. None of my friends/family can watch foreign films, its to bothersome for them to read subtitles. I try time and again to get them to watch just 1 italian film, and that film is this one. I'm reviewing this film because I collect film with Monica Bellucci in them. While her role in this film is that of the mistress and the 3rd female role, the daughter is the 2nd female lead. Monica's part is frequent. But in the end this film is not about her, its about the family, and a great job all the actors/actress do of being this family in Roma. So in conclusion its not Monica's film. But it is a jewel of a film nonetheless.
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Fragmentation and reconstruction!
Added 8/30/2007
The main virtues of this film reside in the solidity of its script, superb edition and the formidable cast. The story is very simple; a mid-class family, a bored couple and their two sons, she is teenager at the eve of her 18 and he is frustrated adolescent, a loser who at the first glance is incapable to establish a normal relationship , on the other hand she is a glamorous and alluring girl, in search of her bliss, to be accepted and being acclaimed due her dancing abilities.
This couple is experiencing a serious conflict of mutual interests that surmount by far, a simple issue of lack of communication, he is successful executive, who never could finish his pretended project, a book that has not ben ended due random barriers, here and there, she is a very sensitive and talented human being, a frustrated actress , now focused into the formation of her children.
But soon, this fragile equilibrium will be catalyzed when a sudden encounter with a fevered love of the past ignites and accelerates the boiling point in this family.
The work of direction is impeccable, and the struggling atmosphere in which these personages exist, will push them to find out a reencounter with each one of them when an unexpected accident happens.
Laura Morante is terrific in her role (do you remember her as the dance teacher in dancing upstairs of John Malkovioch?) and Monica Belluci gives a fine performance (although her alluring and spelling beauty obligates us to refocus ourselves with her acting).
The secondary dramatic lines are handled with secure hand, but told with such conviction that we leave the hall with a bitter taste in our memories , in spite of the pleasant finale.
A must-see.
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worst movie made by italian
Added 5/13/2007
Save your money and don't even think to purchase this movie. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Take my words.
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