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Monday, October 22, 2007

Along The Ridge (2007)

With 7 wins and 4 nominations around the globe (including the CICAE award winner at Cannes festival) , “Anche libero va bene” , has established itself as one of the best Italian movie in 2005/2006 . The movie tells the story of 11-year-old Tommy, his older sister Viola and their father Renato, who have formed a strangely united family since the most important woman in their life, the mother of the two children and Renato's wife, abandoned them. Despite all, this family, so full of fury, failings and inconsolable loneliness, keeps going, thanks to their abiding concern for others and their love.

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In Kim Rossi Stewart's profound and touching directorial debut, ‘Along the ridge’, two young children and their father form a strangely united and courageous family after being abandoned by the most important woman in their lives, their mother and wife. Through all the family's bungling imperfections, good intentions, inconsolable loneliness and fury, the unspoken love between father and children keeps their bond strong. The story is seen through the eyes of eleven-year-old Tommy, with his sister Viola, at times a merciless bully, and his father Renato (Rossi Stewart), a seemingly harsh and unjust disciplinarian. For the three an almost routine peace has settled over their motherless home until Stefania (a heartrending Bobulova) suddenly reappears just as recklessly as she had departed, upsetting the precarious equilibrium again.‘Along the ridge’ (not the literal translation which is grounded in a line of dialogue that invokes a soccer term) won the CICAE Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival where it screened in the prestigious Directors' Fortnight section and won Best Debut Feature (Rossi Stewart) and Best Debut Role (Morace) at the Italian Golden Globes 2006 plus received six 2006 David di Donatello nominations.

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