A Estória de Piera

Now I'm one that understands fairly plotless, shallow scripted films, aimed at simply being realistic- but if The Last Woman (which is INFINTELY better than this) gets a 6.4 then this deserves a 3 tops! To pull off this type of films takes an exceptionally atmospheric actor like Depardieu, so when he's not in this type of film well then it becomes....totally duff. I don't even rate Huppert. In fact, is she good in anything except The Piano Teacher??

Most of the time we've absolutely zero idea where it's heading, the dubbing is awful making it feel even more plastic, and either the script itself or the translation is woeful! I mean I couldn't even tell if The Last Woman was dubbed or not tbh, but this blatantly is. I've never understood why films are dubbed in the same language they're acted in...because they couldn't be assed with microphones? Huge mistake.

The film is meant to be about incest yet all we get is pathetic pecks on the lips, lol. Not a patch on the Depardieu stuff.

As each scene moves to the next, you haven't the faintest clue what anyone's talking about. And Huppert looks like Natalie from Eastenders.

It doesn't feel like this and some of Ferreri's other work is remotely the same writer.

How to appraise this drama? Very difficult task, the plot does not follow any logic, the family is irrational, the father is a man always busy and letting his crazy wife to do with her body whatever she wants, her girl seems to be more rational but at the end she also became as mad as her mother, her incestuous relationships with father and mother were evident, she was sometimes lesbian and sometimes the opposite. She even competed with his mother in sex. What was the objective of Marco Ferreri with this film? I do not know, the film finished and I was as empty as at the very beginning. Just a waste.

Piera's story is that of a young girl whose sexual awakening is not only tolerated but actively encouraged by her parents, with whom she seems to have some kind of an incestuous relationship. The disturbing subject matter is not what is wrong with this film, though. This is a film with loose scenes, no discernible plot, secondary characters that appear and disappear at random, nonsensical dialogue... Hey, if you want to challenge our morals by showing mother and daughter kissing naked on the beach that's fine, but try to do it in a way that is watchable. I will never forgive myself for not following my impulse of leaving after 15 minutes.