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Article: Everybody's Fine.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 24, 1991
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Giuseppe Tornatore, who made the insufferably sentimental Oscar-winner Cinema Paradiso, is back with Everybody's Fine (Stanno tutti bene), starring Marcello Mastroianni as Matteo, a 74-year-old retired civil servant in Sicily, who talks to his dead wife, Angela, as though she were still alive. Films whose protagonists conduct dialogues with the dead constitute a subgenre to be shunned.
Matteo's five grown sons and daughters lead busy, ostensibly thriving, lives on the mainland, and have no time for papa. He puts up beachside bungalows for their summer holidays, but the disgraziati don't even bother to call-never mind write-to say they can't make it. Still ...