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Blistering performances.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Had the trappings of a dysfunctional family dramadey, but sans much comedy. A family of four with the two kids about to leave the nest, caught my middle-aging eye (as opposed to my aging middle eye). The couple dealing with weariness on the surface with each other, but perhaps more truthfully with themselves...the tension of teenagers trying on adult situations too, these set me up with enough interest.All four family members come with their own crises, largely self-made and each oblivious to the others in the family. For some reason that obliviousness seemed to hurt me the viewer, more than the characters themselves.The father and son in the movie confuse sex with love. Italian men may do this better than others, it's debatable. The women stumble through sex while trying to find their careers, but each career is contingent upon the applause of others (art-house small theatre for mom, solid gold dancing and canned TV clapping for the daughter).By the way, all four family members are drop-dead good looking. Three are insecure about it, while the daughter pretty much banks on her beauty. She literally sleeps with her mirror, both soundly and while in coitus with a stepping stone stage hand leading towards the television altar. Does it matter that the role is literally that of a harem girl.To make the family members see each other, Dad is sent reeling by an old flame, even more powerfully attractive than the stunning mother. The flame's (Monica Belluci's) beauty is only over-shadowed by a vacant beach-house that her mother owns somewhere on the shoreline of heaven.Typically in these movies, we are fed some transcendent family epiphany as they rally together while facing their flaws. And I often don't mind those moments as I think there are genuine truths within them, but this film does something a bit bizarre.Spoiler coming...The car accident that nearly kills the father and as expected thereby saves the father, feels really wrong. Comments in the chat section of IMDb talk about Carlo at the end, the forced smile and the not-so-chance meeting the bellisima Belluci-ma. Also we see she that her character did in fact leave her husband.A day after watching this, I cannot shake the notion that this movie seems like an apology from the director (or the writer or a producer) to his lover for not leaving his family. And something tells me his own "car wreck" preventing him from joining her was only a symbolic one.I'm certain his jilted lover will always remember him, and not as kindly as this film would have one believe.

While I am no American Beauty fan, I admit it is a smartly made movie with great performances and fine writing. It seems director Muccino loved it so much he decided to make his own version, Ricordati di Me. Of course there is a middle-class family whose members detest each other; of course they all undergo some kind of revelation and change their attitude towards life. Meek Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) meets old flame Alessia (Monica Bellucci); frustrated Giulia (Laura Morante), Carlo's wife, pursues her passion for theater and becomes romantically interested in her director (Gabriele Lavia); their daughter Valentina (Nicoletta Romanoff) sleeps her way to stardom and their son Silvio (Silvio Muccino) develops a crush for a girl. Acting is uneven. Silvio Muccino, the director's son, gives a dreadful performance, mumbling his way through. Laura Morante is odiously over-the-top; I wonder if the blame is on the director, since I have seen this kind of overacting elsewhere in his filmography and Morante is usually a competent actress. Bentivoglio is better, although if you want to see him shine watch the underrated Come Due Coccodrilli. Nicoletta Romanoff is passable, but her character is so obnoxious that every time she was on screen I wanted her to be run over by a truck. Monica Bellucci, who usually just relies on her good looks, is better than expected; veteran Gabriele Lavia is the best of the bunch as the gay director.Sadly, these characters are both unlikable and boring, a deadly combination. Now, it is possible to make good and even great movies about characters who are reprehensible or just not very sympathetic (Once Upon a Time in America, Sleuth, Ronin, The Hateful Eight...), but they need to be compelling. In Ricordati di Me the protagonists are a bunch of shallow, bored individuals, as derivative as the movie they inhabit.4/10

Spoiler alert! If you go to a movie to see action, special effects, and lots of sex and violence, this isn't the film for you. If you do like to see quality acting and stories about real life and relationships, this is for you. In fact, everyone in Carlo's family (his wife, his son and his daughter) are all looking for something more in life than what they have. Fabrizio Bentiviglio gives an excellent performance as the aloof Carlo, who wants to feel alive again. Laura Morante is also quite good at being the ultra-annoying housewife (Giulia) who does her best to push Carlo away without trying. Monica Bellucci is still beautiful at almost 40 years of age in this film. She plays the other woman (Alessia) who is a long lost love of Carlo's, and she's also married. Before the movie is over, you want to see Carlo and Alessia together, even though both of them have spouses and children to think about. All of the characters experience life-changing events that change them forever; some for the better, others not.The casting is excellent in this film. Silvio Muccino plays Paolo, Carlo's son, who is tired of feeling like a loser and pining for a girl named Ilaria. It's scary how much Silvio looks like a younger version of Fabrizio. Nicoletta Romanoff plays Valentina, Carlo and Giulia's daughter. She wants to be a television star, and will do anything to get there.It is a good movie with exceptional acting that leaves you with a bittersweet feeling in the end.

The plot it's not so original. If someone saw "L'ultimo Bacio" there's nothing new. A wealthy family in Rome living everyday life that's is boring and false, with everyone asking to others what they think about them. Really boring after an half of hour because it's simple to understand where the story is going to finish. This because it's simple to see the moralistic view of Muccino in this movie, so even the hardest parts seem normal. To summarise in the first 2 minutes of the movie it would be enough and the aim of the movie were already said. the family saw from a 30 years old, i don't like to see movie that want to show the reality but for be coherent to his thoughts has to push more than the normal the situations. Really good how Muccino put the camera in the right place moving with the carathers and it's the only reason that bring me not sleeping in the cinema though always in the movie scream from the begining. Perhaps it could be good to see the family how they are in reality and not put the blame to something out of it. Morante was intense and great as usual but unfortunatly on a bad movie!