You can be a ‘rookie’ even at the age of 54 despite being already famous and appreciated, even internationally: this is the case with Gabriele Muccino, a well-known director, who makes his ‘debut’ in the direction of a TV series, albeit based on and inspired by his successful film, ‘A casa tutti bene’ directed in 2018 and now a family-drama in eight episodes, – but we are already ready to shoot the second season – on air from 20 December su Sky e in streaming su Now, with initials composed of Jovanotti, for a co-production by Sky with Lotus Productions, a company of Leone Film Group entitled ‘At home, everyone is fine – The series’.
The stellar cast of the film – which among the actors included Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Stefania Sandrelli, Carolina Crescentini, Claudia Gerini, Sabrina Impacciatore, Massimo Ghini, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Valeria Solarino, Sandra Milo, Gianfelice Imparato, Tea Falco, Giampaolo Morelli, Ivano Marescotti – is not ‘reproduced’ in the TV series, for which Muccino has preferred to turn to new actors – including Francesco Aquaroli, Laura Morante, Francesco Scianna, Silvia D’Amico, Antonio Folletto, Paola Sotgiu, Emma Marrone, Valerio Aprea, Simone Liberati and the ‘little’ Federico Ielapi – with the caveat that no one would “recall” to himself and the viewer the memory of film interpreters.
“L’idea of the tv series was born right at the end of the shooting of the film – confesses Gabriele Muccino to time.news – Indeed, while I was shooting it I already thought that that story could continue, continue, change, evolve, lengthen and widen and therefore deepen well beyond the narrow duration of the film and the synthesis it required, with a TV series that was absolutely not to be inferior in terms of quality and artistic standards, but with different propulsive thrusts. Here, we recognize ourselves in weaknesses of the characters, we sink together with them, as in a game of mirrors “.
The plot around which the different characters revolve, he sees at the center the economic and personal events of the Ristuccia family, whose head of the family has created one of the most renowned restaurants in Roma – the story takes place between the capital and the Argentario – source of considerable earnings and equally remarkable but less noble financial appetites on the part of the ‘extended’ family, consisting of his wife, three children with respective spouses or partners, with ex and lovers, by his sister, by his nephew not exactly liked by his cousins.
If for the director it is the first time of a TV series, for Sky “it is the first time that we produce a family-drama, an uncommon format in our Italian programming, more typical of American and Spanish series – he explains Antonella d’Errico executive vice president of ‘programming’ of Sky – The choral cast called to interpret the different characters, made up of ben 18 artists, well represents all the facets and positive and negative emotions. And the decision to prepare one right now second season, testifies to the sign of trust in this artistic product “.
(from Enzo Bonaiuto)