not even in dream – liberation

Jasmine, already a mother of three boys, wants a girl. Similarly, Hairdresser, Neapolitan, wife of a carpenter a good father, she dreams of raising “One feminuccia” forever. Similarly, The recent death of his father from cancer caused by asbestos in the factory where he trimed his whole life made his maternal desire more imperious: his disappeared father appears to him in a dream. However, holding by hand a little girl, whom he entrusts to him.

Jasmine believes in signs, in good adventure, and her dream, hard as iron. However, This documentary in reenactment – The “real actors” of the “real life” to which more. Similarly, less skillful directors make their own reconstituted history replay – is somewhere between the Party Girl From 2014, the Dardenne, and an episode of reality TV. The games are made, but beings pretend that not even dream – liberation no, nothing is played. So much so that the veracity replaces reality in a new Fake world, “Faussairized”. To dig, what is “playing» in this realistic neogenre. But let’s stay Vittoria : Jasmine therefore begins to adopt, this way of the cross, this administrative hell. It is determined, even if it means breaking certain rules or bypassing them.

Often it is the big subject that spoils the film, so imposing that the production is lagging behind, flatly illustrative. Here, on the contrary, it is the realization that knocks out the sensitive subject. Imprecise are the answers. questions formulated, such as the point, often vague, that the use of tremolo music does not manage to fix. This popular Neapolitan family, this charismatic mother with the Undercut platinum cut and with a stubborn face, deserved really better.