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My Brother Is an Only Child (Mio fratello è figlio unico)

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Set in a small Italian town in the '60s and '70s, the film tells the story of two brothers who want to change the world - but in completely different ways. The elder, Manrico is a handsome, charismatic firebrand who becomes the prime mover in the local Communist party. Accio, the younger, more rebellious brother, finds his own contrarian voice by joining the reactionary Fascists. What starts as a typical tale of sibling rivalry becomes the story of the polarizing and paralyzing politics of those turbulent times and, the rift between the brothers is further intensified when Accio realizes that he loves his brother's girlfriend, Francesca who, like everyone else, is blind to Manrico's increasingly dangerous ideas.

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My Brother Is an Only Child

By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Posted 05/01/2008

One waves a red flag, banner of communism. The other wears a black shirt, symbol of fascism. The ideological battles of 1960s Italy pits brother against brother in Daniele Luchetti's freewheeling seriocomedy, My Brother Is an Only Child. (Though it shares a similar title and era, the film has no relation to Jack Douglas' off-the-wall humor collection of 1959.) » Read more

MPAA rating:

for language and some sexual content

Cast:

Diane Fleri; Ascanio Celestini; Elio Germano; Vittorio Emanuele Propizio; Massimo Popolizio; Alba Rohrwacher; Anna Bonaiuto; Riccardo Scamarcio; Luca Zingaretti

Directed by:

Daniele Luchetti

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