Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Tutta colpa di Freud is a charming Italian romantic comedy with a clever conceit — a psychoanalyst whose three daughters become his most challenging patients — that gives it a warm, distinctly Italian flavor. The ensemble performances are likable and the film rides on good chemistry among the cast. However, the cinematography is fairly standard TV-movie fare with little visual ambition, and the ending resolves too neatly and predictably, wrapping up each storyline in a formulaic bow. The premise has novelty in its layered family-therapy framing, but the execution follows rom-com conventions closely enough to limit its distinctiveness.