Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico [My Brother Is an Only Child] (2007)

RATING:	80%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Oddly-hilarious look at White racism that features stand-out performances from the three principals: Elio GERMANO, Riccardo SCAMARCHIO & Angela FINOCCHIARO. They are completely believable as a ménage à trois and the emotional undercurrents in their on‑screen relationship palpable.

Shot predominately in close-up, this is an intimate portrait if the growing-pains of two brothers as they pass through the 1960s. Like a cross-between the Last Picture Show and This is England, this details the effects of religious, sexual and cultural politics on impressionable youth who see their world as desperately needing change but who, understandably, have very different ideas of how to achieve this.

Roman Catholics are shown as sex-repressive as the fascists. It is suggested that they are racist because they do not get enough, or any, sex. Only the Communists according to this movie have any real answers to real social problems. Nevertheless, this is a good movie about young people whose minds are opening-up to the apparently endless possibilities that lie before them and inevitably making mistakes galore.

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