The Italian
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / family, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Our read · The Italian (2005) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · family entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of The Italian
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“You want a determined Russian orphan's quest for his real mother.”
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