90 mins |
Rated
E
Directed by Alessandro Rossellini
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Anna Magnani, Renzo Rossellini, Alessandro Rossellini, Marcella De Marchis, Robertino Rossellini, Lars Schmidt, Isotta Rossellini, Ronin Hendrick Lane, Elettra Wiedemann, Katherine Cohen, Sonali Senroy DasGupta, Nur Rossellini, Burae Tahir
Roberto Rossellini was a genius of the cinema and a distinctly anti-conformist father. His romances filled the front pages of newspapers around the world, scandalous to the rigid morality of the Fifties and generated a numerous, proudly multi-ethnic, and decidedly extended family. Alessandro, the great director's first grandchild, has had a shaky career as a photographer and a lengthy past as a drug addict. As the first grandchild of a genius, he doesn't feel he measures up of the surname he bears. So, at 55 years of age he decides to make his first film, taking on the Rossellini saga with wit and pressing his relatives into an impossible family therapy in front of the camera.
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Roberto Rossellini was a genius of the cinema and a distinctly anti-conformist father. His romances filled the front pages of newspapers around the world, scandalous to the rigid morality of the Fifties and generated a numerous, proudly multi-ethnic, and decidedly extended family. Alessandro, the great director's first grandchild, has had a shaky career as a photographer and a lengthy past as a drug addict. As the first grandchild of a genius, he doesn't feel he measures up of the surname he bears. So, at 55 years of age he decides to make his first film, taking on the Rossellini saga with wit and pressing his relatives into an impossible family therapy in front of the camera.