In Francesca Archibugi’s film, we find ourselves shut within the bourgeois, Milanese world of impermeable problems and angst of adults and adolescents, —the same ones that afflict all parents and children around the world. The thing is that we recognize instantly the sad condition of today’s adolescent world: the dissatisfied grumbles, the laziness, the apathy, the monosyllabic answers and the obsessive attraction of their cell phone screens. We see today’s youth viewing the world indifferently from a horizontal position –hence Gli Sdraiati–, but as spectators we are just as incapable as the father, Giorgio Selva, admirably played by, of stirring our children to rise and look at the world as our years and experience would wish. Giorgio in fact seems incapable of transmitting to his son a love of life, of appreciation for sunsets or the beauty of mountain walks.Giorgio is a successful journalist, loved by the public and esteemed by his colleagues. Together with his ex-wife Livia, he shares custody of his son Tito, a lazy teenager who loves spending his days with friends, as far from his father’s attention as possible. The two speak different languages ​​even though Giorgio tries hard to communicate with his son.Achibugi, in fact, is particularly successful in transmitting this all consuming ennui of today’s teenagers through the character of Tito. She demonstrates in an achingly truthful way how the tables have turned: Where children once begged for a parent’s love and time, today it is the father that offers “I’ll pay you if you come.” Giorgio, faced with the mute relationship he has with his son Tito and understanding the fundamental problem that he does not feel loved by his son, is prepared to pay what is not naturally given.

What Archibugi offers us here is the phenomena that many psychoanalysts see as the most disconcerting of contemporary generational relationships. In one of the most beautifully significant scenes of the movie, the psychologist is interviewing Tito and Giorgio, and beside them is an empty chair: that of the absent mother.When Alice bursts into the life of Tito, she brings him a new understanding of love and therby upsets the routine he and his friends have.

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Blind willie mctell tab pdf viewer. Finally however, the relationship of son and parent seems to improve. But the enthusiasm will not last long because Alice’s past is somehow linked to that of Giorgio Claudio Bisio strikes the perfect balance in Gli Sdraiati/Couch Potatoes, of dramma with a touch of humour. His delicate handling of the hurt and ignored father elicits our sympathy, but he does not neglect occasionally to make us laugh. Perhaps at ourselves and at our sorry human condition.It will be both a great pleasure and honour to applaud one of the top actors of Italian cinema today, right here at the ICFF 2018 Film Festival on at TIFF Bell Lightbox. A screening will also be taking place in Ottawa on June 20th and Claudio Biso will be in attendance for the screening of at Cineplex Cinemas in Vaughan on June 21st – get your now!Antonia Serrao Soppelsa.