Before watching this movie I was skeptical about such an ambitious program: depicting the most recent Italian history through the eyes of the Carati family. To some extent I was right, this is not a perfect movie. There are flaws, ingenuities, some moments are kitsch and too obvious, and you can tell it was prepared for the TV. But it has the very important merit of portraying lives, attitudes, beliefs of Italy that have been missing from the screen for a long time. Some parts of the movie are very intense, delicately touching. This is the true country where I grew up. Experiences that are very close to mines. Similar faces, similar hopes. Very far away from everything you would see on Italian TV these days. Very different from the ugliness of contemporary Italian society.
A part of the country whose dignity is constantly neglected by stereotypes, but that still represents the best of it.
A part of the country whose dignity is constantly neglected by stereotypes, but that still represents the best of it.