Sunday, August 24, 2008
BROTHERLY LOVE
Today's film was
Mio fratello รจ figlio unico / My Brother Was An Only Child (2007)
This great Italian film tells the story of two brothers over twenty years. Both are political only in different directions.
There is a dual challenge here. They want us to get the story of brotherly love and, at the same time, pick up the strands of changes in the Italian political climate in a provincial town.
The brotherly love story wins hands down.
The film has a rhythm of its own and, while the focus of the blurbs is on their loving the same woman, this is far less important than the story of the two men.
The drama is a bit over the top but the Italians love opera and this film will satisfy that need.
I wouldn't mind seeing it again at all.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
