Chichester Cinema at New Park
Genova
Colin Firth stars as a recently-widowed man who decides to relocate to Italy so that he and his daughters (Willa Holland and Perla Haney-Jardine) can overcome the grief of losing their beloved wife and mother. At first, the move rekindles their love for one another but soon things take a decidedly strange turn when one of the daughters begins to see the apparition of her dead mother and the other discovers sexual awakening...
Michael Winterbotton’s film is also a great portrait for a wonderful, mysterious, city: Genova - a culturally rich Italian city, that is the backdrop for one of Firth's finest roles as the desolate dad who struggles to console his younger daughter who was inadvertently responsible for his wife's demise, and her older sister, whose grief manifests itself in angry rebellion.
UK · 2008 · Michael Winterbottom · 90min
