Brent_Marchant
Its frustrating to watch a film thats ostensibly headed along a particular trajectory but that continually stumbles on the path it takes to get there. Thats precisely what happens in this period piece coming out/coming of age story set in 1938 Italy. Writer-director Laura Luchettis adaptation of Cesare Paveses 1949 novel about an impressionable 17-year-old dressmaker (Yile Yara Vianello) who becomes romantically infatuated with an artists model (Deva Cassel) takes its own sweet time (and plenty of overlong detours) in making its way toward a seemingly foregone conclusion. But, even when this offering apparently approaches that destination, it takes yet another unexpected left-field turn and subsequently leads to what the filmmaker herself a...