La prima cosa bella

'La prima cosa bella’ is a melting and poetic family portrait set in Tuscany and was chosen to represent Italy in the next Oscar race for the Best Foreign Film that will be held in Los Angeles in February 2011. Challenging goal for the film director Paolo Virzì which tells the story of the disillusioned Bruno and his relationship with his mother Anna, a beautiful and energic woman. Bruno, the eldest, is a professor of literature unhappy, insecure and problematic, with no relations with his mother and sister Valeria that is a neurotic employee fled into the arms of a talkative husband. Bruno reconciles with the two women only after learning that his mother is seriously ill and this will be an opportunity for him and his sister to digest a mother really bulky, but also capable of outbursts of unusual love. The childhood memories are the real filter of this story of Bruno and Valeria, both adults and suffering. And around the charismatic Anna the story turns around and takes form. Touching.