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The D'Innocenzos let the mood do the heavy lifting, stewing us along with the families.

While the end result doesn’t fully deliver on its excellent premise, being a little too light of touch, heavy on montage and spare in its scripting, this is nevertheless one of the more accessible cinematic takes on existentialism.

The car racing scenes are the best in the history of cinema.

A continually shifting style, with moments of brilliance and other scenes which feel structurally derivative, threatens to overwhelm the story.

In less adept hands this could have become a clash of content but Václav keeps all his elements in balance, managing to celebrate the beauty of opera on the one hand while showing us uglier mini dramas playing out at the front and back of house.

Servillo has spent much of the latter part of his career playing narcissistic characters, and he’s perfectly cast here.