The Keys to the House (DVD)
Taking to some difficult material with a sublimely delicate touch, Italian director Gianni Amelio offers a personal cinematic treatise on mental illness, physical disability, and child abandonment in THE KEYS TO THE HOUSE. Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) is a father who removed himself from the child rearing process when his mentally and physically challenged son, Paolo (Andrea Rossi), was born. Paolo's mother died giving birth, so a kindly couple picked up the reigns and raised him under trying circumstances. Fifteen years later, a guilt-stricken Gianni gets back in touch with his son, offering to accompany him on a trip to a hospital in Berlin. Paolo cautiously agrees to the trip with his father, but the reunion is awkward for both parties. The level of care Paolo requires is problematic for Gianni, while Paolo seizes the opportunity to unleash some pent up anger he's kept simmering beneath the surface for the previous 15 years. But a chance meeting at the hospital between Gianni and a fellow parent of a disabled child, Nicole (Charlotte Rampling), presents the beleaguered father with a lifeline. Offering helpful advice, Nicole's words provide Gianni with the glue needed to mend his fractious relationship with Paolo. But as Amelio's film reaches its conclusion, some surprising revelations threaten to undo all of Gianni's attempts at reconciliation.Presenting some well-considered musings on the difficult relationship between the disabled and their able-bodied counterparts, THE KEYS TO THE HOUSE triumphs by offering some rarely afforded screen time to an oft-neglected section of the community. Director Amelio treats his subject matter with the dignity and respect it deserves, always treading carefully so as not to condescend, and ultimately offering a cogent statement that lingers long in the mind after the final credits roll.
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Extend your gaming sessions on those long trips with this PSP rechargeable battery pack from CTA. Insert the cable into the DC socket of the PSP to either charge your PSP or use as it an additional power supply.
Features include:
High capacity rechargeable batteries
Extends gaming time to 8 hours
Simply insert the top of the power pack extended hooks into the two circular top slots of the PSP, then clip the bottom of the power pack by pushing it towards the back of the PSP
Insert cable into DC socket of the PSP to either charge your PSP or use it as an additional power supply
1800mAh battery capacity
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Diane is a successful book publisher with a husband and two children. When she meets Emilio, a social worker half her age, her physical urges blot out everything else. Rouan's film examines the euphoria and depression a woman feels before and after and affair. A 1997 Cannes, Toronto, and New York Film Festival Selection.
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Your little girl will be the most fashionable kid on the playground in the modern style of this sweater set from BT Kids.
Top features scalloped collar, cuffs and hem
Jacket features zip front
Hood
Faux fur trim at cuffs and hood
Loose knit finish
Pants feature zip fly with button secure
Standard four-pocket design
Embroidered flowers at cuffs
Available in fuchsia with denim pants
55-percent ramina/45-percent cotton (top, pants), 92-percent acrylic/8-percent polyester (jacket)
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Machine wash
Made in Hong Kong
Model no. 813029
Imported