Happy Family
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
Our read · Happy Family (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Happy Family
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