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Captain Fantastic (2016)
How to ruin a movie in the last 30 minutes
Much of the film is intriguing and original. From the moment the family embarks on the journey to the funeral, the film derails and becomes nonsensical. Ben's delirious eulogy, the six children who travel for an entire day in the double-bottom of the floor bus and emerge by surprise as if nothing had happened, the purloining of the coffin and the display of the corpse as fresh as a rose at 5 even though it has been almost a week since the death, the festive pyre and the ashes in the airport lavatory. How to ruin a movie in the last half hour. I would be uncomfortable giving a rating higher than 6.
Wonder Boy (2019)
A precious insight into the life of an artist
What a talented and beautiful person Olivier Rousteing is, no wonder why he is so loved by his family, co-workers and friends. Throughout the movie, I felt like hugging him and telling him: you are not the abandoned one, you are the chosen one and you deserve all the best.
Side note: his grandparents are beyond adorable.
House of Gucci (2021)
What is this boring mess?!
Patrizia Reggiani was of humble origins, but her mother married a wealthy man in her second marriage, which allowed her daughter to attend the schools of Milan's wealthy bourgeoisie. Patrizia actually belonged to that exclusive world but did not feel 'emblazoned' enough, hence her spasmodic quest to acquire a surname with a higher status. This film, therefore, lacks the 'origins' that explain why a character becomes the 'villain' of the story. In addition to this, unfortunately, there are many other flaws: the pace of the story is slow and boring, the sequence of episodes is confusing and disconnected, the acting of the actors is embarrassingly bad (they wanted to focus on the stereotype of the average Italian but the upper class certainly does not behave that way, we are talking about the Gucci family, not the Corleone family ...). There is a documentary interview with the real Patrizia Reggiani called "Lady Gucci" which is a thousand times more compelling than this mediocre, badly acted and unnecessarily long film.
My Unorthodox Life (2021)
Meh...
This reality show has very little "real". Everything looks planned and staged (the cameraman in the bedroom filming one of Julia's daughters in bed having sex - or make it look like it - with her boyfriend: really?! Not to mention the dialogue). Lots of money but little good taste in both style and behaviour. Julia wants to rule everyone's life; she has a God complex. Silvio, Robert and Ben are the only characters that inspire sympathy.
Pretend It's a City (2021)
Well deserved wit prize for Fran
Fran Lebowitz is an entertaining guest for the whole series. On the contrary, the continuous, unjustified and forced laughter of Martin Scorsese is seriously annoying. At a certain point I was giving up the watching just for that, but Fran deserved better, so I finished the view.
Chiara Ferragni: Unposted (2019)
This is a fallback (and it shows)
All this material was filmed to create a "pilot episode" for an Italian version of the reality show "KUWTK". They tried to sell the project to Netflix (and to other television networks) with no success. The choice of assembling what they had in a documentary, therefore, seems a sort of "plan B". Maybe that's why it lacks a real plot and looks like a patchwork.