Reviews

I have viewed most of Puccioni's work since "Quello che cerchi" and I am happy at the constant growth he exhibits in each subsequent movie. In his latest, "Il filo invisibile," we have a a sensitive story of a family who used modern technology to assist them with being parents. It just so happens that the protagonists are a married gay couple in Italy. They find a donor and become parents only to discover that there is a serious problem that they discover when the child is a teenager. Aside from the problem mentioned above, there are other problems happening concurrently between the protagonists (Paolo and Simone) as well as the son (Leone). In dealing with these problems, Puccioni deals with the ensuing problems with light comedic touches that balance the gravity of the problems between characters, one being the hospital scene with trying to find the correct direction to the hospital room.

The problems the characters face are completely normal and are not stereotypical of any group nor does the film apologize for the characters' flaws by giving it a "Hollywood ending."

The film "Shelter" by Marco S. Puccioni is a film that exhibits the personal and interpersonal relationship between two women (who happen to be lovers) and the involvement of an illegal immigrant who enters both of their lives only to demonstrate and unfold by chance all the problems between the two protagonists.

The relationship between the two women seems to deteriorate at the beginning of the film. Anna, discovers Anis and chooses not to tell her lover, Mara. Anna assumes all the responsibility or power in her decision not to tell Mara. This perfectly foreshadows the lost of trust and hope between Anna and Mara..

However, the young boy, Anis is used as a pawn, between the two women to use at their disposal in order to display power. Is this a subconscious statement made by Mr. Puccioni concerning the West's problems with the South?

But we obviously see the class differences from Anna to Mara and from Mara to Anis. At some point, all three people need each other in order to exist and change, but at the expense of whom?