Giorni e nuvole (Days and clouds)
Quad
Another of those films that we've seen before--male midlife adequacy crisis, patiently suffering wife until she runs out of patience, loving but resentful daughter--but it's all a million times better because (A) it's in Italian, (2) it's set in (and stars) a city we're not used to seeing in Italian films, Genoa, and (iii, and mostly) it manages to transcend the clichés and make them unique to the real people we meet.
Dangerously close to Metaphor Writ Large is the fact that Elsa (Margherita Buy) is a graduate student in art restoration, immersed (until she learns that her husband has been forced out of his company) in uncovering a Renaissance fresco. Thus the film: painstaking and sometimes painful exposure and revelation, as much hindered as facilitated by effort.
And in case you're wondering why just one film in a Manhattan day, and why blogged more than a week late, I had a Mets game that night and was flying to see my granddaughter et al. the next morning.
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