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Bookmark this pageCaterina in the Big City (2003)
Director: Paolo Virzi
Movie review
From Time Out New York
About half of Paolo Virzi's middlebrow dramedy is a reasonably charming look at the transition the young title character endures after her family moves from a provincial town to Rome. Twelve-year-old Caterina (Teghil) is alternately befriended by two cliques in her new class: grungy intellectuals and pampered socialites. Meanwhile, her aspiring-novelist dad (Castellitto) has a very public nervous breakdown, in far less successful segments that are supposed to pass for a satire of nepotism and favoritism in Italian society. At least a cameo by Roberto Benigni is mercifully brief.Author: DD'A
Time Out New York website
Cast & crew
Director: Paolo Virzi
Cast: Margherita Buy, Sergio Castellitto, Alice Teghi
Duration: 116 mins
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