"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Movie tag line: "In 1906 Carlo was born into a very large family..."
Production companies:
Character: Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Character: Adriana
Character: Beatrice
Character: Carlo as a young man
Character: Carlo as a child
Character: Beatrice as a young woman
Character: Adriana as a young woman
Character: Giulio as a child
Character: Giulio as a young man
Character: Giulio as a middle-aged man
Character: Giulio as an old man
Character: Adelina as a child
Character: Adelina as a young woman
Character: Adelina
Character: Aunt Margherita
Character: Aunt Luisa
Character: Aunt Ornella
Character: Paolino as a middle-aged man
Character: Jean-Luc
Character: Carletto as a young man
Character: Aristide
Character: Susanna
Character: Paolino as a child
Character: Paolino as a young man
Character: Maddalena
Character: Uncle Nicola (young)
Character: Uncle Nicola (old)
Character: Carletto as a boy
Character: Enrico as a child
Character: Enrico as a young man
Character: Enrico as a middle-aged man
Character: Armando
Character: Marika
Character: Marina
Character: Juliette I
Character: Juliette II
Character: Carlo's grandmother
Character: Dr. Giordani
Character: Doorkeeper
Character: Uncle Michele
Character: Wife of Uncle Michele
Character: (uncredited)