A gas station crime tears apart a family already fractured by love itself.
Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and protective mother. From their union only one child was born: Maurizio. Both parents raise him completely differently, highlighting their character differences. Until the day when Maurizio, now a teenager, together with a friend commits an attack for futile reasons against a gas station attendant. Having learned of the incident, Valerio and Lucia also in this case intend to face the situation in a diametrically opposite way. The conflicts within the family thus strongly resurface, in which, amidst rebounds of responsibility, the errors of both parents emerge in the upbringing of their child.
Acting
Isa Miranda's suppressed devastation in every close-up.
Direction
Vasile's cramped compositions mirror the family's suffocation.
Director
Turi Vasile
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Italy's economic miracle, the film interrogates bourgeois respectability masks hiding domestic rot.
Vittorio De Sica appears as the sympathetic uncle; he directed Shoeshine and Bicycle Thieves, making his presence here a meta-commentary on neorealism's legacy.
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