The Big Heart of Girls

The Big Heart of Girls (Il cuore grande delle ragazze, 2011) — watch online on iFILM, an Italian drama set in the early 1930s Italian countryside, directed by Pupi Avati. The Vigetti family pushes their son Carlino to court the daughters of the wealthy Osti household. The Osti parents see a neat solution to three unmarried daughters. It all collapses the moment the youngest, Francesca, comes back from the city.

Avati shoots rural life without sentimentality — the weight of family expectation, the fields at dusk, parents who treat marriage as a negotiation. Micaela Ramazzotti and Cesare Cremonini give the two leads exactly the right stubborn chemistry. Stream The Big Heart of Girls (2011) online on iFILM.