Paolo Genovese makes fun comedies and he’s assembled a wonderful for this one, Tutta Colpa di Freud (All Freud’s Fault);Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta, Alessandro Gassman, Claudia Gerini, Vinicio Marchioni and a cute cameo with Edoardo Leo. So why did I fall asleep twice watching it last night?
A psychiatrist played by Marco Giallini has three grown daughters that he’s raised as a single father and still obviously need his help. One is a lesbian that decides she needs to change teams, another falls in love with a deaf guy that has been stealing from her book store and the youngest, at 18 is having an affair with a married man 32 years her senior.
When I say that out loud it sounds even worse than it really is.
So the actors are top-notch, the director obviously skilled, and the opportunity for comic misadventure present; I’m gonna blame the bad dialogue and the pace.
This movie needed either more (and better) jokes or a less complicated storyline; Genovese just tried to do too much and with all the daughter trouble it should have been much wackier or or more thought provoking. He tried to stay in the middle and fell short on both counts.
I hate it when actors like these are wasted; Marco, Claudia, Alessandro, this uninspired comedy is not your fault.
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