Genova
(2009)
★ 5.7 IMDb · 114 votes
Year: 2009
Runtime: 94 мин
Country: United Kingdom, Cayman Islands
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Колин Ферт, Perla Haney-Jardine, Хоуп Дэвис, Кэтрин Кинер, Керри Шейл, Алессандро Джиуджиолли, Willa Holland, Margherita Romeo, Сара Стюарт, Тревор Уайт
Plot
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
How do children respond to tragedy? On an icy road near Chicago, Marianne dies in a crash, leaving Joe and their daughters, Kelly, about 16, and Mary, about 9. That summer, a friend from Joe's graduate student days, 20 years before, arranges a teaching job for him in Genoa. When they arrive in June, Joe starts teaching and the girls have the summer before school starts: Kelly quickly falls in with youths her age; their club and beach life leads to sexual awakening. Mary, burdened by guilt for her mother's death, is solitary. The girls take piano lessons, Mary draws, and she also sees and talks to her mother. Joe asks them, "Are you okay?", but is that enough?