DTEN MINUTES
Type: existential-drama comedy
Direction: Maria Sole Tognazzi. With Barbara Ronchi, Fotinì Peluso, Margherita Buy, Alessandro Tedeschi, Anna Ferruzzo, Marcello Mazzarella
Supported by the evidence of Barbara Ronchi, this Ten minutes continues in the gallery of female portraits that is marking the directorial career of Maria Sole Tognazzi, here dealing with the novel of the same name by Chiara Gamberale: the minutes in the title are those that a psychologist asks her patient to dedicate every day to something she has never done.
At the origin there is the lack of confidence in life (and in the ability to face it), of the forty-year-old Bianca (Ronchi, in fact), so lost by the loss of her job and her husband that she tried to die. And to which the ten minutes of things never done (going to a funeral, stealing from a department store, but also recovering the relationship with the stepsister) should bring a remedy.
Margherita Buy and Barbara Ronchi in “Ten minutes” (photo by Luisa Carcavale).
At the beginning, the film seems to indulge in a few too many authorial quirkspleased in mixing the tracks, in confusing the chronology to remain in balance between drama and comedy.
But when the “clinical” (and existential) picture takes shape, the film finds its narrative and emotional strength at the same time, and the portrait of a woman who must be able to rediscover her own center of gravity acquires new energy and convinces. For those who want to discover feminine fragility and strength.
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