In a nutshell, the movie deal with the story of a middle aged man (Pietro) who looses his wife and has to take care of a young daughter (Claudia). Pietro is an executive (although it is difficult to imagine him doing any work at all), with no financial problems. He decides to stop working (leave without pay?) and starts spending all his days sitting outside his daughter's school.
The reasons for his decision are obscure, as he does not seem to care much about Claudia, just as he did not seem very involved with his wife. Out of nowhere, a woman whose life he saved the same day of his wife's death, pops out of nowhere and has wild sex with him.
Then Claudia asks him to go back to work, as she is probably embarrassed by his freakish behavior and off he goes.
Considering the plot, this is a strangely emotionless movie. Watching it, one can easily forget that the Pietro is a widower and Claudia an orphan, who just lost her mother. This odd couple is – allegedly – dealing with grief through denial or perhaps just plain indifference.
Besides, this movie suffers from a typical Italian problem: the lack of an ending that justify the storytelling in the first place. Like many other Italian movies, the plot starts believably and ends in a big nowhere. Boring.
The reasons for his decision are obscure, as he does not seem to care much about Claudia, just as he did not seem very involved with his wife. Out of nowhere, a woman whose life he saved the same day of his wife's death, pops out of nowhere and has wild sex with him.
Then Claudia asks him to go back to work, as she is probably embarrassed by his freakish behavior and off he goes.
Considering the plot, this is a strangely emotionless movie. Watching it, one can easily forget that the Pietro is a widower and Claudia an orphan, who just lost her mother. This odd couple is – allegedly – dealing with grief through denial or perhaps just plain indifference.
Besides, this movie suffers from a typical Italian problem: the lack of an ending that justify the storytelling in the first place. Like many other Italian movies, the plot starts believably and ends in a big nowhere. Boring.