The boys are doing well Nel film di Lisa Cholodenko viene trattato il tema della “famiglia allargata”: un tema attualissimo, trattato con onestà e delicatezza.
Presentato the previous Rome Film Festival, where a radiant Julianne Moore has sailed with graceful step the red carpet at the Sundance and 60th Berlinale, "The kids are fine" won the Golden Globe 2011 for Best Actress in a comedy, Annette Bening , and received four Oscar nominations in 2011.
A film by actors and then, but not only talking about a lesbian couple, Nick (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), along with more than 20 years, which are built a family. They live in a beautiful house and had two children: Joni ( Mia Wasikowska, Alice the latest film by Tim Burton) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson ), both conceived through artificial insemination with the sperm of the same man. By the age of majority, Joni, driven by her brother, gets in touch with the donor: the boys discover that their biological father, Paul (Mark Ruffalo ), is a restaurateur, biker and heartthrob very cool. The arrival of Paul in the consolidated microcosm of this unconventional family stessotempo will lead to confusion and a breath of fresh air: the end of the 'tornado Paul' what will really reinforced the value of the family.
The film's unconventional Lisa Cholodenko covered in the mainstream of the gay-themed films that are invading the cinema lately, mostly American: An example is the lesbian relationship strong imprint of the recent "The Black Swan " " Milk," or the classic, "Brokeback Mountain . Unlike these films, however, in which the issue of homosexuality is addressed in its most difficult part, namely one in which an individual becomes aware of its diversity and has to contend with the prejudices of society, here is a jump in forward several years, we are dealing not with two young people who have to struggle against hostile family and friends, but two mature women who have struggled to build their family and they won. The subject then moves not homosexuality, but on the concept of "extended family", an increasingly present in our society and deserves to be investigated.
Thanks to the movie, we see that it is not so important that there is necessarily a man and a woman build a family, but the will of two people who love one another intends to commit to building a future together. The director is very skilled in presenting the protagonists always as a family in the truest sense of the word, and not as a group of people 'strange': the two working mothers, the two children are studying, there is a home to think about and affected to be protected. As in any family.
A courageous and honest story, which adds a valuable and truthful testimony of all those families are still too often seen as 'special', but in reality are just like all the others because it made up of people who love and want to build a life together.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore
The quote: "Each of my mothers had a child with your sperm ..."
Hearting / Cuorometro: ♥ ♥ ♥ 1 / 2
Italian Output: March 11, 2011
Titolo originale: The kids are allright
Regia: Lisa Cholodenko
Anno: 2010
Cast: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson
