La famiglia Savage

Unblinking Look at Death Without Nobility

AT the Sundance Film Festival, where the writer-director Tamara Jenkins’s second feature, “The Savages,” had its premiere in January, dysfunctional families are, to an exhausting degree, the norm.
But Ms. Jenkins’s film, which stars Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman as bickering siblings forced to care for their semi-estranged, dementia-stricken father (Philip Bosco), stood out for its wit and maturity. Devoid of the quirks and sappiness that increasingly typify American indie cinema, the film captures the sorrow, anxiety and sheer disruptive tumult involved in dealing with aging, dying parents — a subject at once universal and vaguely taboo. [...]

di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (10874 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 Novembre 2007