Movie # 1074 "We Are Francesco" was the third movie we saw at the Chicago film festival and it was the worst one to me ---- I like that there was a female director, but the editing was bad, acting mediocre (everything felt screamed, but maybe that's the Italian style of acting?) and the story tried to cover too many stories and they never came together. and here's the worst thing, that shouldn't have anything to do with judging the film, but it does to me --- and that is, that the lead really does have arms and they were tied behind his back. Why do I know this? The Q and A at the end of the film told us. I felt that she should have looked for the actor who could do this ---- we found out she had someone signed on, but he backed out and they ended up with this actor. He had to be taught to use his feet and in one scene he couldn't do the "bit with his feet signing a note on the fridge" so they had the girl who was the consultant on the film do it. I don't know, but that bothered me ---- I guess sometimes you know too much. The only thing I liked about the film was that I thought I was learning what a typical day was in the life of a person who had no arms, but I really didn't. I was watching what people "thought" an armless person would act like. That, plus the story being very weak, left me flat on this one. There were a few moments that worked , and the two guys who are friends work well together and are funny, but that was it. I wouldn't recommend this. there are too many good films out there to waste time on this one.
We Are Francesco 90 mins 2014 I would give it 3 stars out of 5
Francis, a 22-year-old, does not have the arms from birth; the rest of his body is 'normal', in fact, he's quite beautiful and well-formed. Life has taught him to use his legs as unique arts and his feet are his very special and skilful hands. He is a very good university student and he has a real close friend, Stefano. He lives alone with his mother, Grazia, a famous architect from Bari. Francesco, however, unlike the dear friend, has never yet experienced the joys of love, and this, now at over twenty years, has become a problem »
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