- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: May 23, 2003
- 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.
- Director: Emanuele Crialese
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 26
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Mixed: 6 out of 26
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Negative: 1 out of 26
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90Not 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.
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80It's slight but in a haunting way, like a half-remembered dream.
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60It'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.
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30Its 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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 6
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Mixed: 0 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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VincenzoB.10
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