Monday 10 August 2015

Un Giorno Perfetto / A Perfect Day (2008 Ferzan Ozpetek & co-scr)

Isabellea Ferrari (mother; la Grande Bellezza), Valerio Mastandrea (ex), Nicole Murgia (daughter), Gabriele Paolino (son), Valerio Binasco (politician) Nicole Grimaudo (the new wife), Federico Constantini (troubled stepson), Monica Guerritore (the teacher, Tell No One), Angela Finocchiaro (medic, Benvenuti al Sud/Nord, My Brother is an Only Child), Stefania Sandrelli (grandmother, Divorzio all'Italiana).

Mainly unhappy characters lives intersect one 'perfect' day - heavy, but rich.

Liked the subtleties: why he has a gas tank in the back, that the tarot customer's husband is almost certainly gay, that we don't know what the teacher was told on the phone, the politician's daughter laughing at him while he cries, that the daughter may be OK.

Q had the plot well before me. Nicely shot by Fabio Zamarion in Panavision, though sadly our Vita release is not anamorphic and you can't zoom in without losing the subtitles.

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