
As a ramp and commercial model and a swinging teenager in this movie of sex,wealth and power, Assunta de Rossi as Erika is a sexy appealing face on billboards and on the catwalk but,at home, with her sister Loida, she shares a dark secret with her surrogate father,Mr. Lorenzo Lavares, who is wed to her sister. The house of Lavares features a strange quartet father and son married to the sisters with warped emotions and shocking happenings.
The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.
I hadn’t heard of it either until recently—and yet, it’s one of the highest grossing movies of all time.
The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.
A decade since it aired, Shameless (U.S.) has always stuck to its guns (and baseball bats) about character diversity.
A story about precarious tricks and unstoppable discipline to inspire young viewers. They'll learn that like any dream, achieving Cloud 9 is possible.