First Beautiful Thing, The

Rich cinematography highlights this engaging, heart-breaking, critically acclaimed, Paolo Virzi, 2010 drama told in flashbacks that spans from 1971 through 2009 as it follows an unhappy, drug-addicted Italian vocational professor (Valerio Mastandrea) and his sister (Claudia Pandolfi) who come together at the deathbed of their beautiful mother (Stefania Sandrelli) as she marries the man (Marco Messeri) she loves, discover that they have a half-brother (Paolo Ruffini) from a tryst she had years earlier, and reminisce about their lives as children (Giacomo Bibbiani/Francesco Rapalino and Giulia Burgalassi/Aurora Frasca) growing up with their actress mother (Micaela Ramazzotti) and an abusive, jealous father (Sergio Albelli) whom she eventually divorced.
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