Rfamily contributions, mental illness, the saving importance of forgiveness. These are the topics in which he enters My brother, my sister, film broadcast tonight on Canale 5 at 21.10. To face them with great delicacy and that pinch of lightness that never hurts, is the director Roberto Capucci who directs the comedy with Alessandro Preziosi e Claudia Pandolfi. The two actors play Nik and Tesla, the brother and sister in question who come to terms with the past and over twenty years away.
My brother, my sisterthe plot
When Professor Giulio Conti dies, he includes in his will a very special inheritance clause addressed to his sons Nikolas, known as Nik, and Tesla: they will be able to take possession of the inheritance only after having lived together for a year. The two are very different. Nik, kitesurf instructor and tombeur de femmehas been living on the other side of the ocean since he gave up, in one fell swoop, his betrothed at the altar and a career as a pianist. Tesla, on the other hand, is the mother of two children: Sebastian (the younger Francesco Cavallo) and Caroline (Ludovica Martino).
The first is a frail boy, a schizophrenic patient that Tesla obsessively tries to protect; with Carolina, on the other hand, the relationship is conflictual. Start like this, a four-way cohabitation between the two brothers and two sons of Tesla. Nik’s character, who goes around the house naked and dresses like a bohemian surfer, and that of Tesla are poles apart. The quarrels on the agenda make the situation implode forcing each of them to come to terms with themselves.
Claudia Pandolfi and Alessandro Preziosi. (Mediaset)
Preziosi-Pandolfi, a couple that works
The one formed by Alessandro Preziosi and Claudia Pandolfi is a couple that works on the screen. Before My brother, my sister, the two had already worked together in the Canale 5 television miniseries, Masantonio – Missing section. “I get along very well with Claudia. Twice in a row with the same actress it had never happened to me, but I’d like to do it again», Preziosi had said, in an interview with I smiledof his set mate with whom he shot like mom did it.
Francesco Cavallo and Alessandro Preziosi. (Mediaset)
«After we met and liked each other, it was wonderful to find him again. I respect him a lot, he has a funny character and he likes to show himself more abrupt than he is. He is a nice and accessible person », Pandolfi replied on the same occasion.
Francesco Cavallo is the nephew Sebastiano
Capucci’s film also deals with the theme of mental illness. Sebastiano, played by Francesco Cavallo, is schizophrenic. To step into his shoes the young actor from Caserta, whom we have seen in the role of the teenage son of Vincenzo Malinconico – Unsuccessful lawyerhas come into contact with this reality. Ludovica Martino did the same, silver ribbon winner for Skam Italyand Claudia Pandolfi.
My brother, my sisterthe curiosity
Alessandro Preziosi didn’t need a stunt double in the scenes where he played the piano. And he also learned to kitesurf, relying on a stunt double only in the distant scenes. As a good provocateur that he is, he didn’t have any problems either in the nude scenes.
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