Loose Cannons
- warm
- brisk
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Our read · Loose Cannons (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Loose Cannons
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a loud Italian family farce about coming out and pasta-factory pride.”
Skip it tonight — Subtitled holiday chaos with your parents sounds like a minefield tonight.
The reading.
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