Alto
(2015/Cinema Libre DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: A Film: C+
Frankie
(Diana DeGarmo) is your average traditional Italian-American girl who
suddenly meets the free-spirited Nicolette (Natalie Knepp) and their
lives take a change. Unfortunately, both of them are from different
mob families, on top of that the FBI is watching them. In a life
defined by their family tradition, cultures and rules, can these two
girls taste forbidden fruit and discover love? Frankie was an
average girl, dreaming of marriage one day, playing in her band and
learning about Italian heritage, but that will all change in Mikki
del Monico's Alto (2015).
Everything
changed when she met Nicolette, a girl who's knows how to speak
Italian and make great Italian food, but also she makes her feel
alive, but they are not the only ones with skeletons in their closet.
Her mother is a divorced closet lesbian, her father is a sugar daddy
who still has feelings for his ex-wife, and her sister is sleeping
with Nicolette's father, on top of everything the FBI think their
relationship is some cover-up for a some mob organization. Annabella
Sciorra (Jungle Fever) also stars.
This
film is about Italian tradition, culture, families and drama that
comes with them. But it is more a comedy because everyone suspects
each other of something only to find it is completely something else,
a comedy of conservative errors. In the end, they realize how easy
it would have been if they had been honest with each other (and
themselves) from the start, but is that enough?
The
HD-shot picture and lossy Dolby Digital sound are soft and average,
but we get a nice group of extras including bloopers and outtakes,
deleted scenes, behind the scenes, promos and trailers.
-
Ricky Chiang
