The Way We Laughed

Acclaimed Italian director Gianni Amelio uses an unusual narrative structure to tell this emotionally rich story of two brothers who, in the late 1950s, leave the poverty of their Sicilian hometown for what they hope will be a better life in the northern city of Turin. The film spans seven years, but rather than opting for a conventional narrative abridgement of major events, Amelio divides the film into six chapters and, for each year that passes, dramatizes a single, pivotal day in the Scordia brothers' lives. 1958: Giovanni Scordia (Enrico Lo Verso) arrives at the Porta Nuova train station in Turin for a visit with his beloved younger brother Pietro (Francesco Gui...