Andrea Occhipinti, Carlo Dapporto, Cecilia Dazzi

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Ca...( read more  read more... )rlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

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Unrated, 2 hrs.

Directed by: Ettore Scola

Release Date: January 22, 1987

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  • May 16, 2009
    nominated for best foreign film at the oscars

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