Mario MonicelliCast
Mariangela Melato 
Delphine Seyrig 
Aurore Clément 
Lou Castel Fabio Carpi 
Marcella Michelangeli
Credits
Written by: Natalia Ginzburg
Plot
In 1970s Italy, a young man, Michele, leaves his mother, a bourgeois woman in Rome, and joins the extreme left, and his mother and her friends write to him, in an epistolary adaptation of Natalia Ginzburg's novel.
Sinekatalog’s take
A melancholic and ironic family comedy-drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.3 / 10 (270 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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