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The Family
Film / 1987

The Family

Directed by Ettore Scola
Drama

★ 7.5/10Audience rating

Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.

The story

Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.

Cast

Vittorio GassmanCarlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather Fanny ArdantAdriana Stefania SandrelliBeatrice Andrea OcchipintiCarlo as a young man Emanuele LamaroCarlo as a child Cecilia DazziBeatrice as a young woman Jo ChampaAdriana as a young woman Joska VersariGiulio as a child Alberto GimignaniGiulio as a young man Massimo DapportoGiulio as a middle-aged man Carlo DapportoGiulio as an old man Consuelo PascaliAdelina as a child
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Ilaria StuppiaAdelina as a young woman Ottavia PiccoloAdelina Athina CenciAunt Margherita Alessandra PanelliAunt Luisa Monica ScattiniAunt Ornella Ricky TognazziPaolino as a middle-aged man Philippe NoiretJean-Luc Sergio CastellittoCarletto as a young man Memè PerliniAristide Hanja KochanskySusanna Allessandro PizzolatoPaolino as a child Fabrizio CerusicoPaolino as a young man Barbara ScoppaMaddalena Giampiero GregoriUncle Nicola (young) Renzo PalmerUncle Nicola (old) Marco VivioCarletto as a boy Maurizio MarsalaEnrico as a child Riccardo MassimiEnrico as a young man Giuseppe CedernaEnrico as a middle-aged man Massimo VenturielloArmando Dagmar LassanderMarika Andrea Livier AronovichMarina Silvana De SantisJuliette I Paola AgostiJuliette II Francesca BallettaCarlo's grandmother Jacques PeyracDr. Giordani Raffaela DaviDoorkeeper Antonio De LeoUncle Michele Allessandra ZoppiWife of Uncle Michele Eleonora Cecere(uncredited)

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