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Rating: Vincent likes to defecate while showering and then decorates the transparent wall with his still steaming excrement, while his mother (a beautiful and talented Valeria Golino) uselessly yells at him not to do it again.
To calm things down a bit, the stepfather (an equally talented Diego Abatantuono in yet another proven performance with his director friend) immediately steps in, knowing how to handle this troubled boy.
This is the opening that leads us into this hour-and-a-half-long film, transporting us across the Slavic border to the beautiful Croatia, where we encounter people always willing to help those in need. There are gunshots, horses, motorcycles and guitars, drunkenness, gypsy parties, beautiful girls, street artists, many songs by Domenico Modugno (covered by Vincent's real father (Willi), a wedding and dance hall singer nicknamed "the Modugno of Dalmatia", played brilliantly by Claudio Santamaria Ferraro), and a soundtrack by Mauro Pagani (for those who don't know, he was a flutist, violinist, and singer in the PFM, or Premiata Forneria Marconi, no small feat).
A road movie based on the 2012 novel "Se ti abbraccio non aver paura" (released seven years before the film), written by the Venetian Fulvio Ervas (a teacher at the classical and linguistic high school “Canova” in Treviso), it is a true story (that of Franco and Andrea Antonello) where Gabriele Salvatores in his own way tells us about a journey and the mutual discovery between an autistic son and an unknown father, keeping us literally glued to the screen during this not easy but remarkable undertaking.
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