Three Perfect Daughters
A funny and ultimately heartwarming Italian family comedy.
Arturo (Marco Giallini), Sergio (Giuseppe Battiston) and Antonio (Vincenzo Salemme), seem to have it all; beautiful lives and beautiful families to boot. But they all take grievance with their daughter’s choices of partners. Arturo’s daughter ditches her lavish wedding to a high profile employee of Arturo to pursue her relationship with vegan, greeny woman. Sergio, always a loose cannon, becomes even more volatile and violent when he believes his daughter has a boyfriend, and that it’s his womanizing ex-school friend. Antonio, a law and order abiding policeman, can’t stand it when his daughter takes up with a drug using rapper. Together, they hatch a plan to break their troublesome relationships up.
Three Perfect Daughters, after setting up a range of interesting relationships for the daughters, tackles a pretty standard plot with the fathers seeking to break-up their daughters relationships. The humor here is frequent, and often funny - taking chunks out of these three men so out of touch with the world, and more importantly their daughter’s lives.
As much as the trio is stylish and Italian to the extreme, their behaviour is occasionally pretty dramatic. Sergio in particular can come across as pretty violent and extreme.
Nevertheless, this film plays out as expected - with funny hijinks, plenty of pretty Italian scenery, and the ultimate learning of lessons from the central trio.
