Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Nanni Moretti | ... | Pietro Paladini | |
Valeria Golino | ... | Marta | |
Isabella Ferrari | ... | Eleonora Simoncini | |
Alessandro Gassmann | ... | Carlo Paladini (as Alessandro Gassman) | |
Blu Yoshimi | ... | Claudia Paladini | |
Hippolyte Girardot | ... | Jean Claude | |
Kasia Smutniak | ... | Jolanda | |
Denis Podalydès | ... | Thierry | |
Charles Berling | ... | Boesson | |
Silvio Orlando | ... | Samuele | |
Roman Polanski | ... | Steiner | |
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Sara D'Amario | ... | Francesca |
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Manuela Morabito | ... | Maria Grazia |
Roberto Nobile | ... | Taramanni | |
Babak Karimi | ... | Mario |
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day. He eats at the nearby café, gets to know the people who come by and follows from afar the fusion developments at work. Pietro's brother expects him to snap out of it, but who will snap first? Written by Peter Brandt Nielsen
Title of the movie that is. There's always bad things happening to people and I'm pretty sure, that you as a reader have experienced grief and loss in your life. Some talk about the yin and the yang of life (let's just say that I personally do also believe in that ... believe).
The title character is portrayed wonderfully by an apparently popular Italian actor. I've seen him before, but I'm not as aware of his biography as other reviewers here. Maybe that makes me more open to his performance, I can't say that for sure. But since this is a character piece/movie it does help that the main actor is as good as he is. Of course the support cast, does help him a lot too.
Since this movie is all about feelings, it's only normal that near the end there is an "explosion" of emotion ... it's also normal, that some of the female audience members were bedazzled (in a bad way) by that particular scene. And the end is just ... normal. But then again, that's life for you (and me) ...