Caterina va in città (2003)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Paolo Virzì

Escritores:

Francesco Bruni (writer)
Paolo Virzì (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 octubre 2003 (Italy)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Frase comercial:

Sometimes you just want to fit in...or not

Plot:

When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro...

Plot Keywords:

Australian | 2000s | First Kiss | Chorus | Conservatism

Premios:

4 wins & 8 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Nice, as ususal... A bit too nice, maybe...

Reparto

Alice Teghil	...	Caterina Iacovoni
Sergio Castellitto	...	Giancarlo Iacovoni
Margherita Buy	...	Agata Iacovoni
Antonio Carnevale	...	Cesarino
Silvio Vannucci	...	Fabietto Cruciani
Federica Sbrenna	...	Daniela Germano
Carolina Iaquaniello	...	Margherita Rossi Chaillet
Zach Wallen	...	Edward
Martino Reviglio	...	Gianfilippo
Claudio Amendola	...	Manlio Germano
Flavio Bucci	...	Lorenzo Rossi Chaillet
Paola Tiziana Cruciani	...	Zia Marisa
Luigi Grilli	...	Zio Alfredo
Tereza Paula Da Rosa	...	Teresa
Renata Orso	...	Zia Adelina

También conocida como:

Caterina in the Big City (USA) (festival title)
Caterina en Roma (Argentina) [es]
Caterina se va a Roma (Spain) [es]

Duración:

USA:90 min | Italy:107 min | Argentina:105 min

País:

Italy

Idioma:

Italiano

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Argentina:Atp | Netherlands:12 | Chile:TE | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Compañía:

Cattleya

Trivialidades:

Cameo: [Corrado Fortuna]

Errores:

Errores Reales: The story begins in 2003, but the dates do not match up with the days of the week for that year.

Banda de Sonido:

Inno ufficiale dei giovani fascisti

Nice, as ususal... A bit too nice, maybe...

I think Virzì is one of the most interesting director in Italy, at the present moment. His ability to portray the current Italian society is quite good, and he achieves this either with *characters* (the two families in "Ferie d'Agosto", the father in "Caterina va in città") and with *stories* (the story of "Ovosodo", a bit of an Italian "It's a wonderful life"... just a bit, obviously... :-).

"Caterina va in città" is a good movie: the idea of showing chunks of the Italian society and habits through the eyes of an innocent teenager gives the movie a "fairy tale" twist that makes it really "light" and enjoyable. I also liked the mom's character, played by a really good and beautiful Margherita Buy: in general, I appreciated Virzì's idea that the "good" part of society is based on the strength of women, as all male characters in this movie either are donquixotesque losers or spoiled and arrogant over-grown babies.

But, as for most of his movies, I think the same criticism again apply: Virzì is openly a left-wing director, but he stresses this a bit too much and sometimes its works sound too "ideological": art should make you think, not tell you what to think, I guess. In addiction, some characters are too stereotypical and don't come out of a really deep psychological analysis. Still, I think he is currently the director who knows best how to take on the screen what goes on in Italy.

In conclusion, I think this movie - just like "Ovosodo" - is based on a simple yet powerful assumption: that happiness is the disease of the idiots...