My Brother, My Sister

It is decent; it has a simple but effective plot, the performances of Alessandro Preziosi and Francesco Cavallo are good and the music is passable; Roberto Capucci has a lot of potential as a film director.

I started watching without too many expectations but it's a beautiful movie and the most important thing for me, it's a movie with a message, with something to learn.

The entire movie felt real and based on real characters but the ending threw me off almost completely.

I don't wanna give any spoilers but there's this element that appears out of nowhere, creates a plot twist and gives you somewhat of a happy ending.

I was like "what just happened???".

I guess that's what they call Deus ex machina. From wiki: a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence.

But how thick is it really? And can it be forced to live together? All questions that can be answered here - sort of. Because we all are different aren't we? I personally do not have those issues with family members - but hey conflicts make movies work.

So the issues they have here are supposed to be resolved - and of course that only means that we get to see a lot of drama and conflict. It is quite well written and it has some fine scenes and really good acting in it. Some will dig it more than others - as always I reckon. Not bad.

Good acting. Very well shot. Anytime you watch an Italian film all I wanna do is drink wine and eat pasta! Being Italian, we have the best fashion, food, fast cars and fast motorcycles....