'Made In Italy' finds Liam Neeson and his real-life son stuck in a mawkish tale of grief and healing under the Tuscan sun. Read Peter Travers' review
) and son who travel together to Tuscany to sell a house that neither has seen since the car-crash death of the man’s wife.has nothing to do with the tragic 2009 loss of Neeson’s actress wife, Natasha Richardson, and the mother of Micheál, who took the Richardson name to pay tribute to the British actress. Still, the mutual grief and abiding love felt by the Irish actor, 68, and his son, 25, cuts close to home and brings the film a touching honesty it otherwise sorely lacks.
In his debut as director and screenwriter, actor James D’Arcy resorts to familiar soap-opera beats that tend to ring false as the dramedy loses its lightness. A big help is the Tuscan scenery, shot with a poet’s eye by Mike Eley, that even grinding plot mechanics can’t spoil. Neeson plays Robert, a once promising artist who lost the will and talent to create after an accident claimed his wife Raffaella.
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