Grimerlana Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

vansantfan Watched this film tonight and it had a big impact on me. I related to the family and was interested how it panned out as I was brought up in a single parent family. I know what those kids went through, I knew the pain of the father trying to hold a job and bring up the kids. The acting was top notch and nothing seemed forced. It reflected a slice of life that people don't always think about. They were content and not that poor but fairly poor.Tommi was perfect in his role as was viola his sister. They had a great camaraderie between them and the acting was natural. The children in the school felt like they belonged in another era, their behavior seemed to be impeccable and something I wish we could see in todays society. A great directorial debut and I will always come back to this gem.

rengamanisoorajkmr121 recently i saw this movie in a TV channel. i don't know about the actors and directorial details of this film.but those people are doing their job very well.especially the boy,he is the best choice for the character.the father character,particularly in the scene where he angry with his son ,when his wife cheating him scoring our attention fully.later i know he is the director of the film.finally,the story is well written .totally the film is simple and beauty.maybe its a melodrama,but it has a message as 'anything will happen life,but life must go on'.this film reflects the modern family life and the sensual problems of children and the parents.the camera work is well done.especially the swimming competition scene.it proves even the small budget films also have the perfect camera works.after a long time it is the mind blowing job along the recently watched films of mine.

ajackaln To tell you the god's truth the movie or maybe it's better to say the story did not catch me that much, but since I have a huge passion for Italian culture I liked the movie because it kind of showed an aspect of modern Italian life although very limited and basic.the story could be more touching, I feel like whenever the audience is going to get connected to the plot and the story the passion that should lead the audience to get connected to the movie gets cut ! After I made it crystal clear that I did not like the story and expected more I have a confession to make! I loved the casting. the actors and actresses were chosen perfectly. Kim Rossi Stuart , not just looked so good with beard but the beard suited him well to play a mature man and a father. the children had similarities in their face features with the Rossi and the actress playing the role of the mother.getting such a strong acting out of children is so hard but Rossi did a great job both as a director and actor.It is not a Sicilian story nor a hot cat walk show in Milan but really worths watching even just for the good acting.

cjosul Tommi, 11 years old, lives with his older sister Viola and his father Renato. At the beginning of the film we don't know where Stefania, their mother, is; but she appears again, and, even we came to know that in the past she hasn't been able to stay in the family and grow up her children, this time it seems she came to stay. Viola is happy, Tommi is more skeptical. Time will tell who was right. "Libero" is a defensive soccer player who doesn't have a specific opponent; Tommi, who is a very good swimmer but doesn't like to swim, at the end of the film says "Anche libero va bene" ("Even libero is OK"), when finally his father agrees to send him to a soccer school, even he'd better be a midfielder. This is a difficult film, dealing with the over-discussed family subject in an ordinary, but still very different way, aided by a superb interpretation of all the four leading characters, with a special mention for the first-time-on-screen Alessandro Morace as Tommi. Barbora Bobulova could be the best Italian actress if she was born in Italy (but we adopt her with great pleasure), and Kim Rossi Stuart, for his debut as director, is also convincing as Renato, even if he had to substitute at the last moment Sergio Rubini, who was the original choice. Probably the best Italian film of 2006.