Packaged In Black And White.Set in rural Australia and
Italy in the mid-1950's, this bittrer-sweet-comedy revolves around the story of
two brothers and the bride who - as Fate would have it - arrives from Italy
betrothed to one yet falls in love with the other. The Donnini brothers could
not be more dissimilar. Gino is handsome, brash and impulsive; Angelo, the
older by a year, is staid, shy and conservative. While Gino looks to the
future, all too willing to relinquish his ancestry, Angelo looks to the past,
unable to let go of it. For Gino, marriage is an unmentionable word, the
furthest thing from his mind, whereas for Angelo, it's all he can think about.
If they have one thing in common however, it's their fierce loyalty to one
another. Suffering in silence after another attempt to procure a bride has
failed, the luckless Angelo decides to try one more time. But in a fit of
heartache, instead of sending a photo of himself, he sends one of his more
handsome brother, Gino, hoping to improve his chances in marriage. When the
beguling, Monalisa-like rosetta arrives in
Australia from her small village in
Southern Italy, what she finds is that the Angelo who greets her at
the docks is not the same Angelo as in the photograph-the Angelo whose image
she has grown to love with the help of her wonderfully vivid imagination. While
Rosetta's sense of adventure in coming to a new country is dampened, her spirit
and imagination are not, trusting always that the destiny that brought her here
has already decided that Gino will be her husband. This poignant story of
brotherly love unfolds against the backdrop of Il Cafe Latino, touching the
lives of everyone there. With its ever-changing frescoes of the
Mediterranean, the sun, the moon and the stars, Il Cafe Latino is
like a jewel in a foreign sea, a sanctuary for the local Italians, a home away
from home. Of the colourful characters that come and go, many are lost in the
past, clinging to memories of a world that only exists in their minds. Love's
Brother is a film that will be appropriate for junior to upper secondary
students in English, Time, change and continuity (Australian History), Culture
and identity and Civics and citizenship.
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