(aka "Le Chiavi di casa" or "Les Clefs de la maison")
directed
by Gianni Amelio
Italy 2004
Ashamed of the disability of his son, Gianni abandoned him at birth and leaves him with his sister-in-law and her husband. Now fifteen,
the son Paolo has to visit a specialist in Berlin and having to accompany him,
Gianni comes face to face with the disability of his son, his own
responsibility as a father and his son as a person.
In Berlin, Gianni meets Nicole, a woman dedicated to the care of her own
handicapped son, and thru her, Gianni begins to come to terms with his own
guilt and begins to understand what it means to be a father and how much love
there is between him and Paolo.
While Gianni Amelio direction at times is a bit heavy-handed, as his own
script at times feels like trying too hard to make a point and a bit too
contrived, the tone of the film is surprisingly sober. It avoids becoming
sentimental and thanks to almost extraordinary strong performances by
especially Andrea Rossi, characters, and thus story, is believable and goes
directly to ones heart. At the end, Amelio thankfully avoids clichés and
statements, and just allows the film to be what it really is to begin with, a
heartfelt emotional story about a father and his son.
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Theatrical Release: September 9, 2004 (Venice Film Festival)
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DVD Review: Artificial Eye - Region 2 - PAL
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| Runtime | 1:46:43 | |
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displays various degrees of compression artifacts, mainly edge
enhancements, but overall an acceptable image. Sharpness varies a lot, from lacking details during long shots to being very sharp during extreme close ups. Clearly, this is to be contributed to the nature of the film and not to the transfer. The additional material is a mixed blessing. The 45-minute long Making of documentary by Luan Amelio Ujkaj is very repetitive and could easily have been shorted by 30 minutes, without losing any information. The same goes for the standard presskit "Looking for the Keys of the House", also by Luan Amelio Ujkaj, which feels like a "best of" of the additional material. Contra to this, the nine deleted scenes (play each / play all) are brilliant, and while lacking either an introduction or commentary, they tell us what deleted scenes do. The best material are the two interviews, where the actors talk about working with Amelio. |
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