Brado: review of the film by Kim Rossi Stuart

Bradois the direct film from Kim Rossi Stuartdistributed by Vision Distributionoutgoing from the next October 20, 2022 in all Italian cinemas.

Kim Rossi Stuart is also the protagonist of the film next to Barbora Bobulova. At the base of the conflictual relationship between father (Renato) and son (Thomas); a lack of communication that constantly puts them in contrast and that manifests itself above all in the different and antithetical positions regarding the management of the family ranch.

A film with dramatic tones that emphasizes the clichés that accompany generational relationships. To make a positive contribution and to allow a rapprochement will be a horse that needs to be “educated” in order to participate in a competition.

Old resentments emerge, unresolved anger, difficulty in dialogue and confrontation, lack of emotional impulses, excessive rigor on the part of the parent who is not inclined to accept the positions of the child who for too long has desired gentleness and attention.

Brado: A dramatic and romantic story, the story of a reality that does not lie and that unites many situations within families that have the difficulty of communicating by giving words meanings of tender coexistence

Interesting and curious is the “pedagogical” role that the horse assumes, almost reversing the roles, the horse initially indocile and gradually more and more available, almost as if it had become aware of the goal to be reached. A path, which, in parallel, also seems to accompany father and son who gradually begin to dissolve those relational knots that for too long had kept them apart.

Kim Rossi Stuartwho knows how to rhythm the direction, has been able to calculate the timing well and presents a cross-section of everyday life common to many, reflecting on the causes that often weaken relationships and alter feelings: conflicts that if not addressed expand hostile attitudes and develop senses of inadequacy.

Brado it is the rediscovery of love and knowing how to love, that love that starts from the heart of those who know how to apologize and also know how to rethink and see themselves again. The love between father and son that is never taken for granted and that needs to be nourished through real and spiritual embraces. A meeting with a woman, an educator, will be enough to heal a conflict, to erase rough distances and to put on a new dress made of attention and delicacy.

The metaphor of an obstacle race, a race to victory unites the two men to the horse, in the narration of a story that allows only a happy ending as if to demonstrate that where there is a loving look the result is always winning.

A setting, among other things familiar to the director, who grew up among the horses, helps to make the film sincere. Kim Rossi Stuart gives life to a plot that leaves no room for rhetoric and does not jam in sophisticated technicalities. Through the candid photography of natural and human landscapes, he opens up to themes of great inner value. A problematic child who suffers from the lack of a mother figure who initially sees a father unable to fill gaps that systematically lead to misunderstandings; a work that proposes different points of reflection and that poses a single solution: letting oneself be guided by an absolute love like the one that naturally binds a parent to his child and vice versa.

Brado, it’s a 116-minute film, a race to the finish line; a goal that will be a new beginning and will change the face of a relationship that celebrates the love found again through dialogue and understanding and the discovery of resembling each other in their differences.