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| Directed by | Mario Monicelli |
| Written by | Carmine Amoroso (book), Piero De Bernardi, Mario Monicelli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico |
| Produced by | Giovanni Di Clemente |
| Starring | Alessandro Haber |
| Cinematography | Franco Di Giacomo |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| Music by | Adelio Cogliati |
Release date | 1992 |
Running time | 105 min |
| Country | Italy: Sulmona (Abruzzo) |
| Language | Italian |
Parenti serpenti (also known as Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations) is a 1992 Italian black comedy film written and directed by Mario Monicelli.[1][2][3] It won the Silver Ribbon for Best Costumes.[4]
Plot
A story taken from a play written by Carmine Amoroso and set in Lanciano, Abruzzo, instead transported by Monicelli in Sulmona, near L'Aquila. During the holiday season, an elderly couple Abruzzo shall make available to their big house to celebrate Christmas with their children and grandchildren, from all similarly prominent cities of Italy. There is a school teacher who hides his homosexuality, the bride and groom with the grandkids spoiled, neurotic psychologist and finally a daughter depressed because it is sterile. Celebrated Christmas in the traditional Christian way up going to church, eating until you burst and playing bingo (tombola), Abruzzo family is preparing to celebrate the new year. In those few days between the Christmas Eve, the old lady said to the children to want to take shabby accommodation with her husband in a house of one of his pupils. In fact, he hates the very nursing home and especially the crude methods still medieval with which nurses treat the elderly in many parts of Italy. Family members are more than happy to accommodate forever in their house their parents, but slowly begin to not bear that burden to bear. Everyone has problems in their family and it is too self-centered and selfish to take care of their dependent elderly parents. So everyone thinks well, just before going to celebrate the New Year at a restaurant, keep open in the parental home gas cylinder. In fact, have a clear intention to blow up the apartment, rather than take care of them. Dead parents, relatives can be divided as best they want the apartment of the elderly parents, telling their children with fake tears the sad misfortune of their grandparents.
Cast
- Marina Confalone: Lina
- Alessandro Haber: Alfredo
- Tommaso Bianco: Michele
- Cinzia Leone: Gina
- Eugenio Masciari: Alessandro
- Paolo Panelli: Grandfather Saverio
- Monica Scattini: Milena
References
- ^ Leonardo De Franceschi. Lo sguardo eclettico: il cinema di Mario Monicelli. Marsilio, 2001. ISBN 8831777637.
- ^ Ivana Delvino. I film di Mario Monicelli. Gremese Editore, 2008. ISBN 8884404770.
- ^ Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I Film. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401372.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 88-7742-221-1.
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