THETHE DEW POINT
Type: melodramatic-filial comedy
Direction: Marco Risi. With Alessandro Fella, Roberto Gudese, Luigi Diberti, Massimo De Francovich, Erika Blanc, Alba De Torrebruna, Eros Pagni
Stealing a reference to atmospheric physics for the title (when the meeting between heat and cold produces dew), Marco Risi uses the meeting/confrontation between young and old to reflect on what life makes us discover or leaves us.
To do so, he sends two twenty-year-olds to an elegant retirement home for the elderly: they have both been condemned to a period of socially useful work and the proletarian and the bourgeois have to deal with a world – and people – that they have always tried to avoid.
The joyful ensemble of the film “The Dew Point” by Marco Risi (photo @ Christian Nosel).
More than a path of growth, however, it is a path of knowledgebecause the two young people (and especially the upper class one) are pushed to know something they didn’t even imagine in their superficiality: the repressed pains, the dreams never realized, but also the unexpected generosity, the explosions of joy, the regrets.
It’s impossible not to think about the relationship between the director and his father, between Marco and Dino (which is also the name of one of the guests of the nursing home), among those who have probably taken a good part of their life to distance themselves from their parent and are now measuring their absence by directing a film that is both a comedy and an act love.
For those who want to deal with the fourth age.
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