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Italian actor KIM ROSSI STUART (Romanzo Criminale, The Keys to the House) makes his impressive directorial debut with this moving and richly rewarding coming-of-age drama that he co-wrote with LINDA FERRI (The Son's Room). Featuring a stand-out debut performance from the young ALESSANDRO MORACE as Tommi, and from Rossi Stuart himself as the raging single father, LIBERO rightly won the Directors' Fortnight prize at the Cannes Film Festival and has been hailed as a modern update on the masters of the French and Italian neo-realist tradition. Renato, a freelance cameraman, is bringing up his 11-year-old son Tommi and daughter Viola alone, after being abandoned by his wife, Stefania (BARBORA BOBULOVA). A strong believer in tough love, Renato offers kindness with harsh discipline. Their individual loneliness and collective yearning for the return of the most important woman in their lives creates a strong bond within the surviving family unit. That is until Stefania returns out of the blue...
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DVD bonus features include an interview with Kim Rossi Stuart, Behind The Scenes featurette, deleted scenes, screen tests (including Alessandro Morace's audition) and stills gallery.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This is the BEST Italian drama I've seen for a long time. It's a properly grown up, heartbreaking drama directed and performed by one of the most talented and handsome Italian actors, Kim Rossi Stuart. I've always been a fan of his late film, The Key to the House (with Charlotte Rampling). Stuart is drawn to father-son relationship-human drama and our emotional journey. In this story, the family drama is observed through the eyes of 11 year old son Tommi and it's about his coming-of-age and his relationship with his father (Kim Rossi Stuart) who portrays a typical working class, harsh, angry, tough father on the surface but in deep down, he is loving, affectionate, trying to do his best to bring up his two children after their mother left them. This film is about the difficulties of life challenges, fatherhood and the love and bond between him and his children.With this film, Kim Rossi Stuart restores the classic reputation of the Italian neo-realist tradition. This film won him the Directors' Fortnight Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. I highly recommend this to anyone who love intelligent drama.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Libero = ALONG THE RIDGE. Kim Stuart Rossi not only Directed, this great film, but also took the responsibility of playing the role of the children's father. It is a beautifully photographed and acted emotional story, about the hard life of a single parent, the father... whose wife comes and goes whenever there was extra itching or maybe not getting enough sexual satisfaction She was ready to leave behind her own flesh and blood - two innocent children fending for themselves with their busy father. He loved them and gave them every minute he could make available. The children; the older, a girl in her early teens and the son, a couple of years younger, were very responsible, but the emptiness and the void of the missing mother hit the children very hard.
No more writing about the feelings of both the father and the kids. The film is great. The DVD I had, had no problems and both the picture and the transfer were of very high quality. A must see. An incredible story, very well edited and with the emotions; eyes can bleed.
No more writing about the feelings of both the father and the kids. The film is great. The DVD I had, had no problems and both the picture and the transfer were of very high quality. A must see. An incredible story, very well edited and with the emotions; eyes can bleed.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The film is excellent but the DVD is diffective. The last 10-15 min of the film is missing. I asked for replacement and I received an other DVD having the same problem with the first. Are all DVDs of this film diffective?
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Anche libero va bene
I bought two copies of this DVD on Amazon.
Both turned out to be faulty and only show part of the film before it cuts out. Read more
Both turned out to be faulty and only show part of the film before it cuts out. Read more
Published 4 months ago by GAL
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I think this film has suffered from being directed by the principle actor, Kim Stuart Rossi, but I am not altogether sure what the underlying meaning/lesson of the film is apart... Read more
Published 21 months ago by C. Pugsley
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