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Rating: We are alone: we build ourselves structures (couple, family, friends, work, etc.) to overcome our fears,
but fundamentally we remain alone because there is always something we can't share with anyone.
Sometimes it's even trivial things that would cost us nothing to say.
This is the message conveyed by Muccino's film. Let’s say right away that this is not an Oscar-worthy work,
however, the story is well rendered, using numerous flashbacks that are not overly acrobatic and resolve quickly.
The story is supported by a screenplay that is not perfect, but you get the sense this was intentional to leave space
for imagination (which is a bit of the trend right now).
But what is especially appreciable is the work of the actors, who present us with characters whose flaws are deliberately exaggerated.
There’s the university professor who treats his lessons like his own personal show: he reminds me of my Physics professor, who would end class by tossing the piece of chalk in the air. Everyone finds him likable (especially the women): he seems to have the right solution and advice for every situation, but in the end, he’s unable to make any decisions.
There’s the overprotective mother who does not realize the damage she is causing her thirteen-year-old daughter and accuses the father of being absent, only to then exclude him at the crucial moments: she reminds me a bit of my mother, my wife, and my friend Roberto's sour wife, who almost ruined our Camper holiday at the Gran Canion.
There’s the altruistic friend who manages to help everyone except the only two people he truly cares about (that is, his wife and daughter).
There are two neurotic teenagers: a thirteen-year-old, oppressed by her mother (mentioned above), and a twenty-year-old who cannot move on to adulthood.
And then there's her: the perfect woman—beautiful, intelligent, capable of facing every problem, but in the end the last to realize what is happening (she reminds me a bit of Thorne from Beautiful).
Of course, I won’t tell you the plot.
A brief mention of the soundtrack, nice mostly for its effects, and the set design: the views of Tangier are beautiful,
but I couldn't help thinking that in Italy there are many similar places that are even more evocative.
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