I translated this movie for a TV network, and had to watch it several times. Each time it got harder to watch, not because a flaw in the script, or acting, or even directing, but because the movie gives you no closure about the characters in a movie about closure for the characters. Nothing is solved, everything goes back to where it begins,and all we find out in the end that the Italian judiciary system for the criminally insane is horrifying at best.
That being said, the acting is truly amazing. I don't think I could have gone through this movie a second time if it wasn't for the leading actresses. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is especially brilliant. But even her performance could not make me like this movie.
One review of this movie refers to it as a mash-up of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "Wild Tales." I haven't seen the latter, but this movie is NOWHERE near the former. It's like comparing an average TV show about food to "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" just because the genre has the name "spaghetti" in it.
That being said, the acting is truly amazing. I don't think I could have gone through this movie a second time if it wasn't for the leading actresses. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi is especially brilliant. But even her performance could not make me like this movie.
One review of this movie refers to it as a mash-up of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "Wild Tales." I haven't seen the latter, but this movie is NOWHERE near the former. It's like comparing an average TV show about food to "the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" just because the genre has the name "spaghetti" in it.