Movielogr
The Family (1987)
Directed by Ettore Scola
Overview
“The Family,” an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather’s lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film’s structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn’t really decide until it was too late.
Length 127 minutes
Actors
Vittorio Gassman | Fanny Ardant | Stefania Sandrelli | Andrea Occhipinti | Emanuele Lamaro | Cecilia Dazzi | Jo Champa | Joska Versari | Alberto Gimignani | Massimo Dapporto | Carlo Dapporto | Consuelo Pascali | Ilaria Stuppia | Ottavia Piccolo | Athina Cenci | Alessandra Panelli | Monica Scattini | Ricky Tognazzi | Philippe Noiret | Sergio Castellitto | Memè Perlini | Hanja Kochansky | Allessandro Pizzolato | Fabrizio Cerusico | Barbara Scoppa | Giampiero Gregori | Renzo Palmer | Marco Vivio | Maurizio Marsala | Riccardo Massimi | Giuseppe Cederna | Massimo Venturiello | Dagmar Lassander | Andrea Livier Aronovich | Silvana De Santis | Paola Agosti | Francesca Balletta | Jacques Peyrac | Raffaela Davi | Antonio De Leo | Allessandra Zoppi | Eleonora Cecere