Having gone through most of Virzi's movies, I thought I was about to see a nice and elegant comedy as previously seen in "My name is Tanino" or "Caterina goes to the city". Instead, the film is drama lacking any type of perspective beyond the elementary and stereotyped Italian postcard of a '70s middle-class family. Characters are so much stereotyped that by the end of the movie I was feeling nosed. The plot is poor and predictable, and apart from the second husband, the other actors are simply unfitted. I'm afraid that Virzi wanted to assert new directing ambitions, but that these have finished to be widely disappointing. 3 for the effort, but subject, plot, direction and acting are a mess to a point that we ended up laughing at the scene of the mother's death.
Review of The First Beautiful Thing
