Lacci, thirty years in the trenches on the rubble of a marriage

(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 29 - That the family is the perfect setting for setting the most unexpected of hells is nothing new, just mentioning authors from Northern Europe such as Strindberg, Ibsen and Bergman himself. LACCI by Daniele Luchetti, based on the novel of the same name by Domenico Starnone (Einaudi), opening film in Venice 77 and from tomorrow in the hall with 01, tells about this hell. We are in Naples in the eighties and the married life of Vanda (Alba Rohrwacher), a precarious teacher, and Aldo (Luigi Lo Cascio), Rai radio host, parents of two children, falls apart in one evening, when he confesses to her that he has fallen in love with a other. She throws him out of the house, hoping for an afterthought, but he doesn't give up. From quiudienze, suicide attempts, moral and non-moral blackmails, and frightened child victims. Thirty years later the couple (Silvio Orlando and Laura Morante) are still together, in the rubble of a war that has annihilated all feelings, including that of their children (Adriano Giannini and Giovanna Mezzogiorno), who grew up amid bitter insecurity. "Lacci - explains Luchetti - is a film about the secret forces that bind us. It is not only love that unites people, but also what remains when love is gone. You can stay together out of rancor, in shame, in dishonor, in the folletative attempt to keep his word. Lacci tells the harm that love causes when it suddenly makes us change direction and the - worse - than when it stops accompanying us ". (HANDLE).