B.rarely is his third film as director of Kim Rossi Stuart. The actor who in the eighties and nineties made droves of girls fall in love with The kimono boy gold and the fantasy series I will fantasizegrew up, became the father of three children (the last one was born a few months ago) and when he gets behind the camera he can’t help but tell stories that involve fathers and sons. He did it with the first work Free is fine toowith the least successful Thomas and now it does so precisely with Brado, Clint Eastwood’s existential western.
The film (now in cinemas) tells of the complex relationship between Renato (Kim Rossi Stuart), a bumper father, and son Tommi (Saul Nanni). The names evoke the protagonists of Free is fine too, they almost seem to show up again on screen several years later. There is also Stefania (Barbora Bobulova), the woman who had left Renato in the previous film, and ViolaTommi’s sister.
Brado: The plot
In Brado (re) we find Renato alone, in his Ranch in the middle of the Lazio countryside where he breeds almost indomitable horses. A passion that he tried to transfer to his son Tommi, which he hasn’t seen for years. The opportunity to meet is a horse accident that causes Renato to break his arm. Tommiconvinced by his sister Violadecides to move to the ranch to look after his father and especially a particularly rebellious horse.
Here the two will have the opportunity to tell each other what they have never said to each other clash and confessto bring out the grudge they have held for years and hug again. At that time on the ranch Tommi will get to know his father and himself betterwill be able to disengage from a toxic loveto open his heart to another girl and get back on the saddle by participating in a cross-country tournament.
Kim Rossi Stuart. (Press office)
Kim Rossi Stuart and his Clint Eastwood western
There is a line in the movie where the character of Renato is ironically called “Clint Eastwood of the poor“. And not by chance. In Brado there is a kind of Eastwood vibe. The protagonist, gloomy and refractory, as could be one of the many characters played by the American actor (Wait by Gran Torino? The rude coach Frankie’s Million Dollar Baby?), shows his face to his son cynical and brutal of lifethat side of the coin that parents often tend not to show their children for protection.
Renato instead it slams in the face of Tommi the stark reality. If on the one hand the son will hate the father for this attitude, on the other hand he will realize, over time and above all in a delicate moment of his life (Here too there are points of contact with a film in particular by Eastwood), how much that education has it strengthened and made to grow.
Saul Nanni. (Press office)
Brado a story of love and healing
For Kim Rossi Stuart it seems almost inevitable to speak of fathers and children, “because we are all children,” he says. Who knows if with this trilogy will put a point on the subject or he will come back to it given the role of father he plays in reality. In Renato there is a hint of his father, actor Giacomo Rossi Stuart, “even if our relationship was not so at loggerheads – Stuart said – there is something about my father in the character, but he was good at give me autonomy“. One aspect that the film explores and that Kim wants to scream at parents of his own generation: «We need to help our children become independent“. How? Also showing that cynical side that now more than ever parents tend to hide out of excessive protectionism.
Barbora Bobulova. (Press office)
Brado «Is a story of liberation and healing – underlines the director and actor – but also of love between a father and a son who try to recover a weakened relationship ».
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