2017 · comedy · coming-of-age
Couch Potatoes
Directed by Francesca Archibugi1h 43m2017
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.
Our read: Couch Potatoes (2017) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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