«Everyone is fine at home», unhappiness is something more than a fatality – Corriere.it

Returns with eight episodes the second season of “Home all well”the series directed by Gabriel Muccino
, written with Barbara Petronio, Andrea Nobile, Gabriele Galli, Camilla Buizza. All the events still revolve around the «San Pietro» restaurant, one of the most renowned places in the capital, in the Gianicolo area owned by the Ristuccia family, with the three children Carlo (Francesco Scianna), Paolo (Simone Liberati) and Sara (Silvia D’Amico) increasingly involved in a whirlwind of intrigues, secrets, misunderstandings, quarrels, small and large betrayals. Not to mention the other relatives, with their load of impossible illusions.

In the second season of family dramaall the characters seem overexcited, they bare their feelings with exasperated transport, they live their stories (increasingly intertwined with each other) as if they were always about to break: the family becomes a nightmare, the paranoia they are daily bread, unhappiness is something more than a fatality.

The Ristuccia-Marianis are one dysfunctional family (everything is bad at home, thanks) in perennial contrast with the functionality of a restaurant, whose behavioral codes require harmony and elegance. Muccino seems perfectly at ease when you’re not shame of melodrama (the French melò), when his state of mind coincides with the rules of the genre, when the taste for intricate events full of sentimental and passionate implications takes precedence over the logic of the plot. The most interesting moments are precisely those in which the reality of daily and family life is transfigured into a dimension now flaming with despair and now languid with melancholy. In short, there is never anything normal and, compared to the first season, there is more a veil of gloom that is hard to thin out.

The most curious aspect is that the dialogue is densethe interpreters always talk but do not understand each other: the incommunicability Michelangelo Antonioni’s was made of silences, Muccino’s of noise. We talk too much due to an interdictof what cannot be said, of the secret that hangs over the family and is transmitted from generation to generation.