
"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)