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Director: Francesca Comencini
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Straying perilously close to TV-movie territory, this latest from Italian veteran Comencini manages to inject what sounds like an MOR textbook weepie, about the emotional toil of premature birth, with a serious dose of integrity and pathos. This is chiefly down to a very affecting and discreet performance from Buy as self-assured middle aged teacher Maria who is unable to hold down a relationship. Her life takes a turn for the existentially harrowing as another fleeting lover waves her goodbye and she finds herself alone and carrying child. After a needlessly baggy preamble, the focus sharpens in the second half as Maria is forced to take stock of her life and her future as her daughter spends a crucial two months inside an incubator. A little soapy, for sure, but it won’t take much for you to succumb to the film’s life-affirming charms.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Francesca Comencini
Cast: Margherita Buy, Antonia Truppo, Gaetano Bruno
Genre(s): Drama
Duration: 98 mins
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