The Rossellinis Review: An Outsider s Inside View of a Dysfunctional Celebrity Dynasty The Rossellinis Review: An Outsider s Inside View of a Dysfunctional Celebrity Dynasty
Alessandro Rossellini, grandson of legendary auteur Roberto, attempts to gather his extended family for an indulgent but interesting exercise in documentary therapy.
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Director: Alessandro Rossellini
With: Alessandro Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Renzo Rossellini, Robin Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Gil Rossellini, Nur Rossellini, Katherine Cohen, Elettra Wiedemann. (English, Italian, French dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 99 MIN.
Courtesy of B&B Film
“I think you have to go back to therapy. It wasn’t enough,” says Isabella Rossellini, drily and only somewhat jokingly, to her nephew Alessandro, as he interviews her on some hard family truths. The documentary he’s making
Alessandro Rossellini on Navigating Therapy With His Famous Family in The Rossellinis (EXCLUSIVE)
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Roberto Rossellini, besides being Italian Neorealism’s most acclaimed film director, was also the father of a nonconformist, cosmopolitan and slightly crazy family that includes Hollywood stars such as Isabella Rossellini, another daughter who converted to Islam, and a son who has chosen to live on a desert island in Sweden.
The Rossellini family also comprises the revered maestro’s Rome-based grandson Alessandro (pictured as a child behind the camera) who is a former photographer and also a recovering drug addict. After gaining his sobriety, Alessandro felt he had not lived up to the expectations and also the burden of his family name. And he was pretty sure that his relatives also suffered a form of what he calls “Rossellinitis.”