Synopsis
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
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Cast
- Nanni MorettiPietro Paladini
- Alessandro GassmannCarlo
- Valeria GolinoMarta
- Isabella FerrariEleonora Simonicini
- Blu YoshimiClaudia
- Hippolyte GirardotJean Claude
- Kasia SmutniakJolanda
- Denis PodalydèsThierry
- Charles BerlingBoesson
- Silvio OrlandoSamuele
Recommandations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Managing to avoid facile sentimentality, the story grows emotionally more and more engaging thanks to Moretti's impeccable comic timing and neurotic acumen. - 80
Variety
Beautifully modulated, fluidly told film expresses pain with warm understatement. - 60
Empire
Don't expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare - but it'll still be better than the inevitable remake. - 60
The New York Times
Thankfully, Mr. Grimaldi and the screenwriters have no great lessons to impart or messages to deliver, and the film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting. - 50
New York Post
Stick around till the end. You don't want to miss an unexpected cameo from a filmmaker I won't name. Hint: He's short, likes younger women and isn't Woody Allen. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Moretti makes this ''study'' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience. - 30
Village Voice
Not even the momentary participation extraordinaire of a vertically challenged famous filmmaker self-exiled from the United States can save this phony pseudo-drama from its final collapse into a heap of inconsequence and male vanity.
