Title: Good idea, pleasant acting, zero for execution
Review: A naturalist Italian movie about the life of a psychologist and his family faced with trials and tribulations.Any naturalist movie is heavily dependent on the attraction of its characters and the things they do. In this case, big zero. The father is a psychologist that is so incompetent that his patients again and again criticize him for his total incompetence, and we don't see him do actual work (although we do see the typical plethora of weird patients on the couch). Nanni Moretti's acting and directing is delightful but he has not given himself anything to do. The mother seems to do little else than advance the plot, and the daughter could be more interesting if she was fleshed out at all.I could see the rating for this movie go down in my head as it went on, out of boredom. It's a good idea for a movie, Moretti is pleasant to watch, but he gets a zero for execution.
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