Set in 1970s Rome, this movie follows a family going through a lot of things at the same time: gender questioning from Adri (one of the kids), cheating from the husband, depression from the mother. Though I get that going through all this would be hard for any of them, none of the characters are likeable. Adri is putting every kid in danger, because they decided that they were grown up enough and that their siblings and cousins should follow their every steps. They have a very bad temper, and just seem to want to watch the world burn. The bad temper could easily have been inherited from the father, who is violent, and seems very much to put the whole family into a bad mood as soon as he arrives home. He wants his kids to behave at all times, and his wife to be ok with him cheating with his secretaries. As for the wife, she came from Spain, and has a lot more "joie de vivre" than her husband. She tries to bring happiness and to show that life is a party to her children, so that they do not end up like their dad. She is extremely unhappy, and feels alone in a country that is not hers, surrounded by people that are very different from her. She is the only character I was able to feel anything for, and even then, she was not able to hold the movie enough for me to like it.
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