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CANNONS |
aka MINE VAGANTI
Year: 2010
UK: Peccadillo Pictures
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro
Presiosi, Ennio Fantastichini, Lunetta Savino, Ilaria Occhini,
Daniele Pecci, Carolina Crescentini, Elena Sofia Ricci
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Country: Italy
Language: Italian (English subtitles)
UK: 113 mins
UK Certificate: 12A contains one use of strong language and
moderate sex references
UK Release Date: 17 December 2010
Official website
Reviews: Phase9
movie review
Synopsis
‘I Am Love’ meets ‘Meet the Parents’ in this outrageous
‘al dente’ family comedy from celebrated award-winning director
Ferzan Özpetek.
No other nationality respects their food and family gatherings with
the fervour and zest of the Italians, but when it comes to the
Cantone family, some things are better left well away from the
dinner table and in the closet!
Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio) is the youngest child in the large,
eccentric Cantone family who own a pasta factory in Puglia: his
mother Stefania (Lunetta Savino) is loving but suffocated by
bourgeois conventions; his father Vincenzo (Ennio Fantastichini) has
unrealistically high expectations of his children; his aunt Luciana
(Elena Sofia Ricci) is an eccentric with a soft spot for liqueur;
his sister Elena (Bianca Nappi) a frustrated housewife; his brother
Antonio (Alessandro Presiosi) pines for a forbidden romance; and
then there is his rebellious grandmother (Ilaria Occhini), the
‘Loose Cannon’ trapped in the memory of an impossible love.
When the Cantones gather for a family dinner to both welcome
Tommaso’s return and to discuss the future of the family business,
a secret is revealed that throws the whole family into turmoil, and
the strong familial ties which bind them together are put to the
test with explosive results.
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