Anno | 2003 |
Genere | Drammatico |
Produzione | USA |
Regia di | Tamar Simon Hoffs |
Attori | Malcolm McDowell, Olivia Tracey, Heather Juergensen, Max Beesley, Susan Lynch Greg Ellis. |
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Il film si incentra sulla vita della famiglia di Enda Doyle, poeta e libraio universitario, che ha lasciato dietro di sé una scia di indii indizi irrisolti, una famiglia disunita e schiacciata da una serie di tragedie e un torbido mistero.
If, as Tolstoy observed, happy families are alike, and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, the Dublin-set film "Red Roses and Petrol" didn't get the message, being a dysfunctional clan movie that feels dispiritingly like all the others. It starts with an Irish patriarch's death -- that of college professor Enda Doyle ( Malcolm McDowell) -- and moves toward a scandalously unattended wake [...] Vai alla recensione »
Leave it to the Irish to turn misery and recrimination into an art form. In “Red Roses and Petrol,” a soused, post-funeral postmortem on a dysfunctional Dublin family, the misery seeps from the screen in cold, damp waves; by the end you’ll be grabbing for the bottle yourself. The epicenter of all this wretchedness is the patriarch, Enda (Malcolm McDowell, appearing solely in flashback and on home [...] Vai alla recensione »