Drama

Le sorelle Macaluso

Rosamont

Minimum Fax Media

RAI Cinema

Italy

Italiano

The Macaluso Sisters

Viola Pusatieri

Eleonora De Luca

Simona Malato

Susanna Piraino

Serena Barone

Maria Rosaria Alati

Anita Pomario

Donatella Finocchiaro

Ileana Riganò

Alissa Maria Orlando

Laura Giordani

Rosalba Bologna

Emma Dante

Giuseppe Battiston

Daniele Di Gennaro

Vanessa Sannino

Attilio Moro

Cinzia Castania

Christian Peritore

Gianluca Costamagna

Valerio Tedone

Paolo Spigno

Nadia Paone

Alessandro Feletti

Stefano Grosso

Gianluca Gasparrini

Irma Misantoni

Anna Terrassan

Francesca Sorce

Francesca Valestro

Alessandra Li Mandri

Giovanna Cannizzaro

Giulia Contino

Mirna Summa

Claudia Ceccaroni

Daniela Gusmano

Marta Mancuso

Marco Coradin

Marie Gioanni

Alessandro Molaioli

Sandro Ivvesich Host

Giulia Tomassini

Valentina Parrino

Rachele Meliadò

Marco Contaldo

Fabrizio Tarantino

Amedeo Califano

Bruno Albi Marini

Mirko Morciano

Giorgio Vasta

Elena Stancanelli

Gherardo Gossi

Benni Atria

Emita Frigato

Maurilio Mangano

Marica Stocchi

Salvatore Pecoraro

Aldina Governatori

Valentina Iannuccilli

Anna Elisabetta Conti

Leonardo Giambi

David Quadroli

Massimo Cipollina

Pierre D'Oncieu

Marco Pancrazi

Clarissa Cappellani

Daniele Carbonaro

Gabrio Contino

Diego Vallini

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There are five siblings all living in the same house in Sicily, of varying ages, and this film takes us through their lives, loves, trials and tribulations as they must deal with each other and their respective choices and aspirations as they all grow older and deal with tragedy. It’s told back to front, really, as we reflect on the life of “Antonella” (Viola Pusateri) whilst dancing around the timelines of what’s gone before. It was probably easiest to depict the initial stages of their lives as youngsters growing up and meeting life’s new challenges in different ways - boys, girls, hormones, you name it, and for me that segment of the film works best. As they all mature, though, it rather stagnates - a fair reflection on a daily grind best epitomised by the eldest, “Maria” (Eleonora De Luca) who has to take responsibility at a fairly young age and who never really loses, or knows how to lose, that, but not always the most scintillating to watch evolve. It’s that despair, with or without a capital ‘D’ that, together with the house in which they live, provides a rather depressing template for a story that sucks the joy and hope from their characters and leaves them as once aspirational now shells of women whom I found it quite difficult to either relate to nor to sympathise with. What I did like was the paucity of dialogue as it progressed. The imagery, repetitive at times but poignant too, starts to leave our own imagination to do some of the heavy lifting here as we fill in our own interpretation of many of the elements we don’t see or learn about directly from the screenplay. It’s at times quite a powerfully objective look at the constraining nature of close and intimate family life, but with little real attempt made to give these ladies much depth, I struggled to remain engaged.

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Viola Pusatieri

Eleonora De Luca

Simona Malato

Susanna Piraino

Serena Barone

Maria Rosaria Alati

Anita Pomario

Donatella Finocchiaro

Ileana Riganò

Alissa Maria Orlando

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