Drifters (2011)

One of my all time favorites.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The movie depicts the relationship between a half brother and sister and the heights to which it goes. but hey first need to understand why it should not be called incest. the couple are not related directly but only through their father. the girl young age do certain emotional things which is common at that age. the sex involved was natural and consensual so whats so wrong with that. I highly recommend the world to review these forced relationships because the young people are asking logical questions.Its not far when we are going to see such marriages .as far goes for the movie Miriam is highly seductive and any man would go for her and her performance is of charts.

You can tell a lot about someone from their handwriting. Mète (Andrea Bosca) knows this because he's a graphologist, a handwriting specialist who is called upon to identify cases of forgery and false wills. He might be an expert in identifying character traits in handwriting, but Mète's own life is not so easily categorised. He's a bit too uptight however to fit into a baffling group of people that his colleague Bruno (Claudio Santamaria) calls 'gli sfiorati', 'drifters' whose personality and writing seems to change from one line to the next.The idea of the drifter in handwriting is a good metaphor and it helps establish where Gli Sfiorati is going when it seems to be drifting itself. You can see that Mète has issues around the loss of his mother and a sense of abandonment by his father, but it still doesn't really account for him wanting to keep out of the way of his half-sister Belinda (Miriam Giovanelli) who has come to stay in his apartment during the preparations for his father's new wedding. Nor does it explain why he can scarcely summon up any interest in the hottest girl in Rome (Asia Argento), who is crazy about him.With some episodes involving his estate agent friend Damiano (Michele Biondino) extending the theme, there's a sense that Gli Sfiorati is referring to a drifting generation in a wider sense; a generation without roots and tradition, where money is all that matters and can buy happiness and otherwise inaccessible women. But for how long can you drift on that basis? The matter baffles Bruno, but you get a sense that he and Mète probably think too much, examining the surface handwriting without actually reading what is written for real clues.It's amusing to consider this as a solution while you wait for Mète to figure out what is wrong with his life, because Matteo Rovere film doesn't offer much in the way of clues, appropriately finding a rhythm that exists outside of any conventional narrative exposition. The solution provided however comes across as a little too neat without really finding any satisfying explanation for gli sfiorati or why Mète might be about to join their number. Maybe it's just Youth, or maybe we all have the potential to be gli sfiorati.

The Italian title is "Gli sfiorati," incorrectly traduced as "The Drifters." The verb "sfiorare" means to touch lightly, to brush against, to caress, to lick (another meaning, explained in the movie, has to do with graphology). A secondary meaning is to deflower. The subject of incest is in fact viewed with a light touch here. The point of view (common to many recent Italian movies) is cheerfully amoral. Incest is seen as just a bit of naughtiness, even if aggravated by the systematic seduction of one sibling by the other and by the perhaps unwitting facilitation by the parents. As for the film itself, production values are high, direction is brisk and acting excellent by all concerned. However, it is difficult to give it a rating on the only basis of quality given the subject and the way it is treated.

This film deals with a brother and his half sister that grow attracted to each other. It is Italian and I view it with the English subtitles. Still, I viewed the entire movie and followed the drama to the end. It seemed to end suddenly in my opinion. The main topic is taboo buy North American standards. Much like first cousins being sexually attracted to each other. Each person will have to make up their own minds if they are willing to tolerate this type of story. I found the acting to be good. I found the actors to be likable and the story to be entertaining. I think the sets and production was good. This is a quiet night movies for adults with grown up minds.