Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28868 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-03-22
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 125 minutes

Customer Reviews

As good as it gets.
Ordered , paid , delivered in under two weeks instead of the five as notified.

I will...
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.

Fragmentation and reconstruction!

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.