Films like this make you realize that, for all its glamour and its money, Hollywood is really irrelevant in today's cinema. This is one of those films that could only be made in Europe; as far as I know, the film wasn't even distributed in the US, which is just as well, because I doubt that the American public could have appreciated this film without special effects, without the mandatory one-thrill-every-20-minutes, with a thin plot, and great multidimensional characters.
The film is the story of the relation between an old Communist (who defines himself as Hegelian, rather than Marxist) who grew up in a party of social order and almost puritan lifestyle, and his daughter, a product of Italy's extra-parliamentary left in the 1970's which was, at the time, storming through the convictions of the previous communist generation.
The strongest point of the movie is the equilibrium in the representation of the political conflict between two worlds (which had to be a major part of a narration set in years in which "the private is public" was an ongoing slogan) and the personal conflict between two people (a homage to the more reclusive and private 90's).
Great performances of Marcello Mastroianni, Sandrine Bonnaire, and the young Lara Pranzoni as "Papere."
The film is the story of the relation between an old Communist (who defines himself as Hegelian, rather than Marxist) who grew up in a party of social order and almost puritan lifestyle, and his daughter, a product of Italy's extra-parliamentary left in the 1970's which was, at the time, storming through the convictions of the previous communist generation.
The strongest point of the movie is the equilibrium in the representation of the political conflict between two worlds (which had to be a major part of a narration set in years in which "the private is public" was an ongoing slogan) and the personal conflict between two people (a homage to the more reclusive and private 90's).
Great performances of Marcello Mastroianni, Sandrine Bonnaire, and the young Lara Pranzoni as "Papere."