Respiro

Respiro

2002
Family/Kids
1h 30m
Grazia (Golino) is a mother of three who spends suffocating days packing fish while her husband Pietro (Amato) is at sea. Her oft-erratic behavior leads Pietro into thinking she may need medical attention, and he prepares to send her off to a psychiatric institute in Milan. Their son Pasquale (Casisa), the one person who understand his mother the most, vows to do whatever it takes to foil his father's plan. (imdb)
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Respiro

2002
Family/Kids
1h 30m
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Rated 09 Jun 2009
100
94th
I watched this a long, long time ago, when it was fairly new, and I still think about it once in a while. At the time I didn't really understand it, but nearly twenty years of adult life have made me appreciate it a lot more.
Rated 31 Dec 2012
75
44th
A remote Italian village deals with a bipolar mother
Rated 28 May 2012
69
36th
It's a well crafted piece that misses a more contrieve narrative structure, but the acting is so vivid that the film don't cease to be good.
Rated 01 Oct 2010
50
47th
Odd hodgepodge of glue-sniffing genre coming-of-age film, Woman Under the Influence rip-off/remake, and picturesque nearly ethnographic snapshot of Sicilian village life. What the film lacks compared to Cassavetes acting-wise and in terms of free-flowing unpredictability, it somewhat makes up for in sheer visual beauty and a strong, lyrical sense of place.
Rated 27 Apr 2023
70
42nd
I don't know if life on Lampedusa is or has ever been like this, but I'd like to think so because it makes for a really compelling film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
66
32nd
The film isn't bad; Golino is very good and the depiction of childhood politics feels very real, but the whole film seems too reminiscent of Woman Under the Influence.
Rated 26 Apr 2013
85
33rd
A story of a small town on the seashore; a family and its daily life, struggles, joys

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