Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Family story
It is difficult, I think, to mix drama with comedy.
But in this film about an Italian family with not one but two gay sons, they come pretty close. Laughs with some tears. Happy ones.
Mine vagrant / Loose Cannons (2010)A favorite son comes home for a visit to the pasta manufacturing family.
Ready to come out to the family he discovers that his brother is one step ahead of him. Two gay sons! The father is apoplectic over the first. Who will he leave the family business to? Now what does the second son do? And his lover and friends show up mid visit.
There is a lot of fun to be had in this film about families, gay siblings, traditional marriages and all the rest.
It is a great film and as fresh as though I saw it for the first time.
Some great comedy turns by some friends from Rome who show up and flagrantly overturn the apple cart. But as most straight families do, the father and others fail to see the connection. Or even get what is going on.
Of course this is stretching it but still, it is a very good, warm and even sentimental tribute to family love. And to gay people who often show up among the straights. What did we do wrong? The first and incorrect question by the parents. More, what did we do right to help this son find himself.
This is a definite 5 out of Netflix5. The cast has talent wide and deep. Great ensemble acting. The water ballet by four gay friends from Rome is not to be missed.
