The Macaluso Sisters (2020)
(Le sorelle Macaluso)
Country: IT
Technical: col 89m
Director: Emma Dante
Cast: Donatella Finocchiaro, Serena Barone, Simona Malato
Synopsis:
The lives of five sisters living autonomously in an upper storey Palermo apartment are forever shattered by a day's outing to the lido nearby.
Review:
Adapting her own play for the screen, Dante shows us five promising young lives, albeit with the seeds of future antagonisms already there, but with a resilience reflected in the daily return of the doves they loan out for weddings and parties. Indeed, there is a little too much symbolism in this film, which shows the aftermath of tragedy many years later, and again a generation after that, instead of its immediate impact. A hole in the wall made with a file, a heart cut out of a deer, an outdoor screening of Back to the Future: much to get to grips with on top of working out which sister is which. A bleak, at times startlingly beautiful, cameo of life.
(Le sorelle Macaluso)
Country: IT
Technical: col 89m
Director: Emma Dante
Cast: Donatella Finocchiaro, Serena Barone, Simona Malato
Synopsis:
The lives of five sisters living autonomously in an upper storey Palermo apartment are forever shattered by a day's outing to the lido nearby.
Review:
Adapting her own play for the screen, Dante shows us five promising young lives, albeit with the seeds of future antagonisms already there, but with a resilience reflected in the daily return of the doves they loan out for weddings and parties. Indeed, there is a little too much symbolism in this film, which shows the aftermath of tragedy many years later, and again a generation after that, instead of its immediate impact. A hole in the wall made with a file, a heart cut out of a deer, an outdoor screening of Back to the Future: much to get to grips with on top of working out which sister is which. A bleak, at times startlingly beautiful, cameo of life.
(Le sorelle Macaluso)
Country: IT
Technical: col 89m
Director: Emma Dante
Cast: Donatella Finocchiaro, Serena Barone, Simona Malato
Synopsis:
The lives of five sisters living autonomously in an upper storey Palermo apartment are forever shattered by a day's outing to the lido nearby.
Review:
Adapting her own play for the screen, Dante shows us five promising young lives, albeit with the seeds of future antagonisms already there, but with a resilience reflected in the daily return of the doves they loan out for weddings and parties. Indeed, there is a little too much symbolism in this film, which shows the aftermath of tragedy many years later, and again a generation after that, instead of its immediate impact. A hole in the wall made with a file, a heart cut out of a deer, an outdoor screening of Back to the Future: much to get to grips with on top of working out which sister is which. A bleak, at times startlingly beautiful, cameo of life.