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My Brother Is An Only Child (15)
DANIELE Luchetti's drama of
squabbling brothers mixes the
personal with the political, set against the
background of 1960s and 1970s Italy.
The story is hardly treading fresh ground.
After all, brothers have specialised in
arguing since Cain and Abel started the
trend, but the delivery is edgy enough to
stop it tipping over into soapy melodrama
or preachy party political broadcast.
Headstrong Accio (Elio Germano) is
constantly at war with his mother and
father and the older brother, Manrico
(Riccardo Scamario), he thinks his parents
favour.
The siblings can't agree on anything. While
Accio leans towards following the local
fascists, his brother favours the
communist party and organises the
workers at the local factory.
There is, inevitably, a girl that both men
fancy, although Accio has to make do with
an affair with an older woman, the wife of
the man who sets him on the path to
fascism.
As the pair get older, their political
allegiances change and become more
fervent. They grow apart, only to be thrown
together in the violent clashes that
punctuate the domestic dramas.
While Scamario broods moodily
throughout as Manrico, we see Germano's
Accio grow from hot-headed youth to
passionate believer in righting wrongs in
his local community.
Stars: Elio Germano, Riccardo
Scamarcio, Luca Zingaretti, Anna
Bonaiuto
Running time: 100 mins
Rating: Four stars
5:56pm Thursday 3rd April 2008
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