Family Diary

Family Diary

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Release Date

9/28/1962

Runtime

108 mins

Genres

Overview

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

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Revenue

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A haunting meditation on the fractures within a family torn apart by circumstance and class. The film unfolds through memory, drawing you into a relationship bound by both resentment and unbreakable obligation.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulBittersweet

Themes

FamilyClassLoveGriefMemory

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticPainterly

Structure

Framed flashback

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