Stanno tutti bene (1990)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Giuseppe Tornatore

Writers:

Massimo De Rita (writer)
Tonino Guerra (writer)

Release Date:

31 May 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates)...

Plot Keywords:

Road | Family Relationships

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni	...	Matteo Scuro
Michèle Morgan	...	Woman in train
Valeria Cavalli	...	Tosca
Marino Cenna	...	Canio
Norma Martelli	...	Norma
Roberto Nobile	...	Guglielmo
Salvatore Cascio	...	Alvaro enfant
Matteo Lo Piparo
Mariangela Randazzo
Gaia Restino
Paride Zappala
Leo Gullotta
Antonella Attili	...	Matteo's Mother
Nicola Di Pinto
Sylvie Fennec

Also Known As:

Everybody's Fine (USA)
Ils vont tous bien! (France)

Runtime:

118 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | UK:12 | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-8 | Germany:6 (w) | Sweden:11 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Company:

Erre Produzioni

Movie Connections:

Remade as Everybody's Fine (2009)

A wonderful tale of awakening. Mastroianni is excellent.

Giuseppe Tornatore is best known for the excellent, Oscar-winning "Cinema Paradiso," but unlike that film, "Everybody's Fine" is rarely talked about. One of my all-time favorite actors, Marcello Mastroianni (8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, Big Deal on Madonna Street), plays Don Matteo, an aging Sicilian father of five who goes on a trip throughout Italy to try and visit all of his children. This is a trip of revelation for Matteo, who believes his children to be happy and wealthy. Gradually, the truth comes down.

Throughout the movie, Matteo is haunted by dreams of a beautiful Felliniesque day at a beach in which a caravan of horses are destroyed by an ominous descending black balloon that also steals his children. This isn't the only thing in the film that is inspired by Fellini, there are a LOT of things in here that echo the great Fellini's work (including a shot of a bus driving by our main character, it's passangers with their hands on the windows glaringly staring at him...GOOD STUFF).

It's a very warm, sentimental film, and I thought it was quite wonderful. Legendary composer Ennio Morricone's extraordinary score fits the film like a glove.