Genova (an Italian summer) by Michael Winterbottom

I had adored " A cock and a bull story" by the same director, as it was so sensible, so sensitive, so clever..

This time, it's not a comedy, it's a tragedy...
The mother of two girls dies in a car crash, on a winter day, the two girls being in the car with her.
So, the father and his daughters try to survive after that so sudden death.

As he has the opportunity to go and teach for a year in Genova, in Italy, the three of them leave Chicago.
They live in an old flat in the centre of Genova, and the girls keep on getting lost in the narrow streets, walking in the dark shadows followed by intense light.
And we realize that the oldest holds her sister for responsible of the death of the mother, and almost hates her for that, sometimes trying to lose  her in the streets.
And the youngest is sure she is responsible for that death, and she has visions, and nighmares, where her mother appears.
As for the father, he doesn't know how to speak to his daughters about their mother's death. He does the best he can to make them happy, he tries to keep the link between them and their mother through music and the practise of the piano, as she was a music teacher.

The music in this film is used as the mother's presence, intense, obsessive.

The actors are fantastic. The city of Genova is seen like the inside of a mind, tortuous, sometimes dark, sometimes bright.

And if you don't feel the intense sensitivity of this film, you're lost to feelings!