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Rating: "Happy Family, Unhappy Film."
A dreary film, superficial and half-heartedly made, this "Happy Family" (2010) by Gabriele Salvatores.
A film that goes nowhere. On the classic "inspiration crisis" of a director (Ezio, played by the usual Fabio De Luigi) who doesn't know what film to make (like Fellini in "8 ½") and wastes time idly in a carousel of unsuccessful references.
A frankly bad film, that doesn't entertain (you NEVER laugh), filled with "old" stereotypes that never add an interesting touch to these 90 minutes difficult to get through as a viewing.
A film made "just for the sake of making one", full of uncertainties, half blunders in often awkward and hardly believable acting.
A poorly directed film, which makes it unmistakably clear that it has NO vision, no project, doesn't know WHAT to say or even HOW to do it, which "drifts along" with overused scenes (the drug-loving father Abbatantuono, Buy playing the usual hysterical psychotic, Bentivoglio as the rich man who discovers the taste of life just weeks before his death... and blah blah blah).
The only "spark of life" is the Pirandellian scene, where the characters exit the film and blend into the true life of the director. Nothing new in any case, but at least... it wakes us up for a few minutes from the soft warmth of my home sofa that plunges me (complicit) into a mortal boredom of rare "intensity."
A bit too little, right?
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