I expected much more from Iannaccone after that little gem that was his first movie.
"La vacanza" has many side-stories: unfortunately it stays superficial (or - to be kinder - just scraps the surface) on most of the stories-topics it touches. Most characters feel cardboard cut stereotypes: the touches of surrealism/cuteness I loved in "La buona uscita", here become weird rabling and feel like ex-post tricks to give more life to artificial characters. While the main plot concludes organically and somewhat poetically showing us the inability of "average" people to coexist with "cognitively non-average" people, most of the stuff started didn't feel like getting any kind of proper treatment/explaination/conclusion.
Visually essential, on average good cast. With a more refined screenplay, 20 minutes less and a couple of side stories cut it could have been a great film: as it is there's too much complex material hastily put together.
"La vacanza" has many side-stories: unfortunately it stays superficial (or - to be kinder - just scraps the surface) on most of the stories-topics it touches. Most characters feel cardboard cut stereotypes: the touches of surrealism/cuteness I loved in "La buona uscita", here become weird rabling and feel like ex-post tricks to give more life to artificial characters. While the main plot concludes organically and somewhat poetically showing us the inability of "average" people to coexist with "cognitively non-average" people, most of the stuff started didn't feel like getting any kind of proper treatment/explaination/conclusion.
Visually essential, on average good cast. With a more refined screenplay, 20 minutes less and a couple of side stories cut it could have been a great film: as it is there's too much complex material hastily put together.