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Universal acclaim- based on 10 Ratings

  • Starring: Francesco Casisa, Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato
  • Summary: Set on a small island near Western Sicily, this is the story of a free-spirited young wife and mother whose sometimes erratic behavior leads her husband?s family to question her stability.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Not since "Y Tu Mamá También" has a movie so palpably captured the down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood reality of high-spirited people living their lives without self-consciousness.
  2. It's slight but in a haunting way, like a half-remembered dream.
  3. 60
    It's Filippo Pucillo who gives the youngest son such mellifluous southern sass that you wish the camera would abandon the whole woman-as-sadness retread and scooter off in his direction.
  4. Its long-winded denouement, in which Grazia runs away rather than be sent to an institution, doesn't bring the story full circle. It just extends it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. VincenzoB.
    10
    This is a brave movie with simple plot and a powerful imagery. More than the beauty of the island, I was struck by the liveliness of the dynamics among the young boys, the codes of manhood among the adults, and the incredible character of the young woman. Don't miss it! Expand

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