The read
A Balasaur Score of 73 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes 71%. Scores higher than 77% of the 1,355 1980s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Prime.
Synopsis
Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, 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 structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes71%
131 audience votes
Key crew
- Furio ScarpelliScreenplay
- Ruggero MaccariScreenplay
- Ettore ScolaScreenplay
- Armando TrovajoliOriginal Music Composer
- Ettore ScolaDirector
Cast
- Vittorio GassmanCarlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
- Fanny ArdantAdriana
- Stefania SandrelliBeatrice
- Andrea OcchipintiCarlo as a young man
- Emanuele LamaroCarlo as a child
- Cecilia DazziBeatrice as a young woman
- Jo ChampaAdriana as a young woman
- Joska VersariGiulio as a child
- Alberto GimignaniGiulio as a young man
- Massimo DapportoGiulio as a middle-aged man
- Carlo DapportoGiulio as an old man
- Consuelo PascaliAdelina as a child
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Themes
family