New Directors/New Films and Film Comment Selects 2014 General Forum thread

[Chris Knipp]

Selects

ME AND YOU/IO E TE (Bernardo Bertolucci 2012)--FILM COMMENT SELECTS

An antisocial 14-year-old holes up secretly in his Rome apartment basement for a week to fool his mother into thinking he's gone on the school ski trip. Later his long estranged older half sister turns up to detox from heroin and as he is forced to help her, they bond. No reason to go beyond Mike D'Angelo's Cannes 2012 report that this film's just "pleasurably inconsequential," but also that it's great Bertolucci has gone back to filmmaking after a decade of serous health problems (he's confined to a wheelchair). The film is enjoyable, and the performances by Jacopo Olmo Antinori as the boy and Tea Falco as his half sister are excellent. This is the filmmaker's first film in his native Italian in thirty years.

The first of three FCS 2014 films I got to see. [Correction: later I got to see a fourth.]