A Castle in Italy
French-Italian actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi writes, directs and stars in this drama set in northern Italy and Paris. She plays Louise, a former actress struggling to hold her once-wealthy family together and keep them connected to their beautiful estate in Piedmonte.
The film is inspired by two seismic events in Bruni-Tedeschi's life - the 2006 death of her brother from AIDS and her 2009 adoption of a baby with her partner.
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Flicks, Giles Hardie
flicks“A family is forced to sell their Italian home” suggests the official plot description of this French film. That’s not what A Castle in Italy is about, but is possibly the only storyline it maintains throughout. The film portrays the rubble of a dysfunctional once-aristocratic French-Italian family: two middle aged children and their mother, denying debt, health and reality in tragically unbelievable fashion.
Variety
pressMore than a mere affirmative-action entry in this year’s Cannes competition (where it is the lone pic directed by a woman), this low-key but pleasing arthouse item will earn more audience goodwill than much of the Croisette’s more fashionably outre product.
The Guardian
pressProbably the worst film of the Cannes competition so far: a smug, twee confection about a family losing their house
Sydney Morning Herald
pressInterweaves reality and fiction in a highly self-conscious manner that is calculated to keep us guessing.
Flicks, Giles Hardie
flicks“A family is forced to sell their Italian home” suggests the official plot description of this French film. That’s not what A Castle in Italy is about, but is possibly the only storyline it maintains throughout. The film portrays the rubble of a dysfunctional once-aristocratic French-Italian family: two middle aged children and their mother, denying debt, health and reality in tragically unbelievable fashion.
Variety
pressMore than a mere affirmative-action entry in this year’s Cannes competition (where it is the lone pic directed by a woman), this low-key but pleasing arthouse item will earn more audience goodwill than much of the Croisette’s more fashionably outre product.
The Guardian
pressProbably the worst film of the Cannes competition so far: a smug, twee confection about a family losing their house
Sydney Morning Herald
pressInterweaves reality and fiction in a highly self-conscious manner that is calculated to keep us guessing.
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