My Brother is an Only Child

You never know what you're going to get with Italian films. Sometimes they are so sickly sweet that you want to vomit or at least leave the cinema pronto. Luckily there's also a handful that are more politically minded. With the writers behind The Best of Youth penning this, it was always going to be worth seeing. Not as good as the earlier film, and with a slightly dubious and schematic division of political allegiances, it nevertheless scores highly with the portrayal of acrimonious yet still loving family interaction. In those scenes it's also rather amusing too, which is a necessary counterbalance to the rest of the film.