A Casa Nostra
(Italy, 2006, 100 minutes)
Stories of life in modern-day Milan, connected in some way to a hard-headed police detective and a corrupt banker. Mosaic melodrama whose dry framing and oblique structure is let down by a conventional ending that ties everything neatly.
A MK2 Diffusion/01 Distribution release. A Biancafilm/RAI Cinema production. Starring Valeria Golino, Luca Zingaretti, Giuseppe Battiston, Laura Chiatti, Luca Argentero, Bebo Storti, Teco Celio, Fabio Ghidoni. Directed by Francesca Comencini; produced by Donatella Botti; screenplay by Franco Bernini and Francesca Comencini, from a story by Francesca Comencini; music by Banda Osiris and Fabio Gurian; director of photography (CineCittà), Luca Bigazzi; production designer, Paola Comencini; costume designer, Daniela Ciancio; film editor, Massimo Fiocchio.
Stories of life in modern-day Milan, connected in some way to a hard-headed police detective and a corrupt banker. Mosaic melodrama whose dry framing and oblique structure is let down by a conventional ending that ties everything neatly.
A MK2 Diffusion/01 Distribution release. A Biancafilm/RAI Cinema production. Starring Valeria Golino, Luca Zingaretti, Giuseppe Battiston, Laura Chiatti, Luca Argentero, Bebo Storti, Teco Celio, Fabio Ghidoni. Directed by Francesca Comencini; produced by Donatella Botti; screenplay by Franco Bernini and Francesca Comencini, from a story by Francesca Comencini; music by Banda Osiris and Fabio Gurian; director of photography (CineCittà), Luca Bigazzi; production designer, Paola Comencini; costume designer, Daniela Ciancio; film editor, Massimo Fiocchio.
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