Misunderstood (2014 film)

Misunderstood (Italian: Incompresa) is a 2014 Italian drama film directed by Asia Argento.^[1] It was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Misunderstood
Film poster
Directed by	Asia Argento
Written by	Barbara Alberti Asia Argento
Produced by	Mario Gianani Eric Heumann Maurice Kantor Lorenzo Mieli
Starring	Giulia Salerno Charlotte Gainsbourg Gabriel Garko
Cinematography	Nicola Pecorini
Edited by	Filippo Barbieri
Release dates	22 May 2014 (2014-05-22) (Cannes) 5 June 2014 (2014-06-05) (Italy)
Running time	103 minutes
Countries	Italy France
Language	Italian

Plot

Aria is the sensitive little daughter of a female concert pianist and an actor. Both neglect her in favour of their children from earlier relationships. Eventually she also has to face the fact that both parents are heading for a divorce.

Cast

• Giulia Salerno as Aria
• Charlotte Gainsbourg as Mother
• Gabriel Garko as Father
• Gianmarco Tognazzi as Dodo
• Justin Pearson (musician) as Ricky
• Anna Lou Castoldi as Donatina
• Max Gazzè as Manuel Ginori
• Alice Pea as Angelica
• Carolina Poccioni as Lucrezia
• The Penelopes as The Penelopes (music band)

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on 15 critics, and the average rating is 6.7/10.^[3]

Peter Sobczynski from Roger Ebert.com gave it a 3.5 out of 4 stars, and wrote "An occasionally strange, occasionally brutal and occasionally lovely work that goes up on the shelf with 'The Ocean of Helena Lee' and 'Girlhood' as one of the more impressive coming-of-age tales of recent times."^[4] The A.V. Club's Adam Nayman gave it a C+, and stated "The ostensible boldness of Misunderstood is undermined by the sense that it's also pandering-that its view of childhood as a bourgeois horror-show is at least as salable on the art-house circuit as it is authentic to its creator's experiences."^[5]