Directed by:
Gabriele SalvatoresCinematography:
Italo PetriccioneComposer:
Louis SicilianoCast:
Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Margherita Buy, Fabio De Luigi, Corinna Agustoni, Gianmaria Biancuzzi, Alice Croci, Diego Abatantuono, Ugo Conti, Sandra Milo (more)Plots(1)
Because of a trivial road accident, Ezio, the star-storyteller of this movie, is thrown into a sort of microcosm where parents may be wise but also nuttier than teens, mothers are neurotic but brave, grandmother are inevitably foolish, daughters are gorgeous and dogs are stubborn and in love. In short, two contemporary families which slip classifications and labels, and constantly evolve, in an unstable balance, alive, happy, bewildered. Happy Family is a disguised admission, a disguised diary, a play about fearing happiness, about the fear to turn to something we do not know. It is an exorcism written in Milan at summer, when not a leaf stirs and when what is normally unspoken comes out of the silence. All the wishes and fears. To be too much, of being none. Smiles, clashes and exciting encounters. Eyesores and imperfections watched ironically. Flaws which turn into poetry. And that is how the daily fear of living a half life, of being predictable is driven away. It is a comedy telling life as if it were a movie. Or, it is a movie telling life as if it were a comedy. (Paycom Multimedia)
(more)Cast
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Italy
Best movies:
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Lady of the Camelias (1981)
Rose Island (2020)
Margherita Buy
Italy
Best movies:
The Unknown Woman (2006)
The Ignorant Fairies (2001)
The First Day of My Life (2023)
Fabio De Luigi
Italy
Best movies:
On Our Watch (2021)
Ex (2009)
Put Grandma in the Freezer (2018)
Corinna Agustoni
Best movies:
Nirvana (1997)
Diego Abatantuono
Italy
Best movies:
Fantozzi Against the Wind (1980)
Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976)
Scusa se รจ poco (1982)
Ugo Conti
Italy
Best movies:
S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago (1994)
Mediterraneo (1991)
A/R andata+ritorno (2004)
Sandra Milo
Tunisia
Best movies:
Witness in the City (1959)
Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
Way of Youth (1959)
Valeria Bilello
Italy
Best movies:
Sense8 (2015) (series)
One Chance (2013)
Miele (2013)
Carla Signoris
Italy
Best movies:
Ex (2009)
Let Yourself Go (2017)
Fasten Your Seatbelts (2014)