A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.... (Full plot summary below)
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A misanthropic professor returns to his hometown to assist his dying mother.
Leave your thoughts about The First Beautiful Thing.
| OregonianStan HallThe high-pitched emotions, gesticulations and occasional near-hysteria seem completely normal and genuine. |
| Seattle TimesTom KeoghVirzi approaches mawkishness but he never crosses the line. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasIt's especially striking how effectively Ramazotti's and Sandrelli's performances as Anna blend together so smoothly. Together, they create a portrait of a woman who lacked all the necessary skills to be a parent, except to fiercely love her children. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA tender, captivating and well-acted drama abundant in humor and heart. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereA lovely Italian throwback about a loner vocational school professor coming to terms with the death of his mother and the sources of his present-day unhappiness. |
| Village VoiceMichelle OrangeVirzì's delicate touch and the cast's uniformly captivating performances make that reckoning a lovely, charmingly melancholy thing to watch. |
| New York TimesNeil GenzlingerComedy and poignancy weave together in Mr. Virzì's hands, but the maudlin meter only occasionally goes into the red zone. And Ms. Pandolfi gives such an exquisitely understated performance that you don't realize until the very end that the film was as much about her character as it was about Bruno and Anna. |
| Slant MagazineDiego SemereneIn films such as the Italian The First Beautiful Thing, the mother/whore dichotomy collapses in whimsical ways: The mother is the whore. |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyThe film becomes wearisome due to Virzì's indulgent use of busy, overstated flashbacks. |
| NPRElla TaylorIt's fair to say that men in general and ardent Catholics in particular don't come off well. Yet even they are humanized by the movie's merciful temper, and by a cast of damaged ancillary characters wearing eccentric goodwill on their sleeves. |
