No. 82 (2021) THREE PERFECT DAUGHTERS (E Per il Tuo Bene). Preview for Italian FF Perth W.A. OCT. 11th.

 

Film No. 82 (2021)  October 11th.  6:30 PM  PALACE Cinema 6,  Raine Square,  Perth City. 

"This is war."(The fathers' make a pact and join forces to resist their daughters' choices of boyfriends)

Here is another of these inoffensive Italian comedies that become so safe and predictable it's best to leave your brain at the candy-bar and just let the "tosh" flow over you. Okay, first there is the simple plotline. In this case three men are married to three sisters all of whom are years younger than them. Each couple has an only child, that being a daughter. Each daughter is spreading their dating wings. Secondly, the fathers' image of the perfect partner for their daughter is going to be very different to the choices made. The daughters do as they please. The wives generally accept these choices but the men will stop at nothing in their narcissistic patterns of behaviour. There is mayhem along the way combined with some slapstick moments. Some of the themes are quite serious. In real life the human condition wouldn't be treated quite so frivolously considering some of issues depicted here. Matters including stealing, malicious damage, grievous bodily harm and a gaol term. But let me return to my initial point. E Per il tuo bene is silly, predictable fun. It's not my "bag" but it is doing good business in Italy and if it is getting people out of COVID restricted existences and into cinemas, then bravo! 7GUMS.