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Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)

Posted By: jotarapidup
Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)

Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)
2:01:21 Min | Xvid 1.681 kb/s | 704x400 | 25 fps | Ac3 192 Kbps. | 1.59 GB
Italian | Subtitles: English and Italian.srt | Genre: Comedy, Drama

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates), a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined. The film is a veritable travelogue across contemporary Italy, as Matteo journeys to Napoli, Roma, Firenze, Milano, and Turino to search for each of his children; he even spends one night on the streets among the homeless. Scuro returns to Sicily, visits his wife's grave, and reports with irony that "stanno tutti bene" (everybody’s fine).

Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Comment extracted by pagan from IMDb on the previous thread
This film is definitely different in perspective on family life compared to "Cinema Paradiso". It is not as sentimental, but very real. The viewer is able to see everything in the father's eyes, played by Marcello Mastroianni. When he sees his children, he sees them how they once were – not as adults. Mastroianni is always excellent. It is funny though to see him as a father and a grandfather when one is so used to seeing him as a bachelor, like in "La Dolce Vita". I was able to feel the love he had for his children and also the hurt when the truth was brought out in front of him. We all want so much for our children and it is painful to see it otherwise. An excellent statement. Besides the message the film brought, it also gave the viewer a good dose of the italian countryside, Roma, and Milano. The travel scenes were an added touch. Nothing can beat "Cinema Paradiso" in tenderness, but "Stanno tutti bene" is not too far off!

Mateo Scuro, like his name, is in the dark. Both symbolically and really. With his thick-lens glasses, Mateo looks out at a world that has become distorted by progress, poor eyesight and the reality of being forgotten. A pensioner who has not seen his children in years, Mateo says goodbye to his wife in Sicily and travels to the mainland of Italy to begin a journey to see his five children. He wants to surprise them and so he does not tell them of his plans. But the real surprises are waiting for Mateo.

Traveling from one city to the next, Mateo calls on each child with great anticipation to see the meaningful impact they are having on Italian life. But life quickly hits Mateo squarely between the eyes and forces him to see clearly. Each child is hiding something from their father who does not see well. Their lives are not what they appear to be. They are unhappy working in menial jobs or with their relationships. But their real secret is the crushing blow for a doting father. The youngest son, Alvaro, has committed suicide and none of the others can bring themselves to telling their father the truth.

Toward the end of Tornatore's cinematic statement about the isolation of being forgotten, Mateo and his two surviving sons meet for dinner. His daughters, grandchildren and of course, Alvaro, are not present. This staple of Italian life and joy, the family table, now becomes Mateo's nightmare when he learns of Alvaro's death.

Tornatore is a master of the dream sequence. In the tradition of Fellini and Wertmueller, Tornatore give us insight into Mateo's deepest fears of losing his family through a dream. We see a large, black balloon, with tether ropes hanging down, descend on a beach where Mateo, his wife and children are playing years before. As this balloon descends, picks up his children and carries them away, Mateo runs to them but cannot reach them. He watches them float away into the sky. This foreshadowing of Mateo's life comes to fruition when at the film's end, Mateo is in a hospital room recovering from an episode of what can only be interpreted as the most profound disappointment of all–the loss of one's family.

Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)


Giuseppe Tornatore - Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody's fine (1990)