Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writers: Niccolo Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano, Bernardo Bertolucci.
Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco.
Plot
A teenager lies
to his mother and bunks off a school ski trip so he can spend a week alone in a
basement. However, his estranged half
sister turns up and she needs help to get off drugs.
Review
This is a
small and well told story with nice performances from Jacopo
Olmo Aninori (Lorenzo) and Tea Falco (Olivia). Lorenzo’s change from selfish
teenager to empathic manhood is nicely documented by Bertolucci, but it’s not a
story that offers anything new in the coming of age film. There is no real
meatiness in the drama. Essentially it's vacuous story about a
couple of rich kids treating themselves and their family badly. This makes them unsympathetic and unlikable and you don't really care what happens to them. There is no real subtext either, so all in
all a surprising choice for a veteran director.
2 out of 5 stars.
