"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
as Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
as Adriana
as Beatrice
as Carlo as a young man
as Carlo as a child
as Beatrice as a young woman
as Adriana as a young woman
as Giulio as a child
as Giulio as a young man
as Giulio as a middle-aged man
as Giulio as an old man
as Adelina as a child
as Adelina as a young woman
as Adelina
as Aunt Margherita
as Aunt Luisa
as Aunt Ornella
as Paolino as a middle-aged man
as Jean-Luc
as Carletto as a young man
as Aristide
as Susanna
as Paolino as a child
as Paolino as a young man
as Maddalena
as Uncle Nicola (young)
as Uncle Nicola (old)
as Carletto as a boy
as Enrico as a child
as Enrico as a young man
as Enrico as a middle-aged man
as Armando
as Marika
as Marina
as Juliette I
as Juliette II
as Carlo's grandmother
as Dr. Giordani
as Doorkeeper
as Uncle Michele
as Wife of Uncle Michele
as (uncredited)
