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The whole Italian and, we will understand, rather dysfunctional family will gather at the family celebration of the matriarch Nene (French actress Dominique Sanda, who had the most famous roles in Bertolucci’s “Conformist” and “Novecente”). She with her husband Umberto, the housekeeper Lucia and her her mute daughter Grazio lives in an apartment in Bologna, and Nena and Umberto’s children will go there with their spouses/partners and children. divorced, and in the other car waiting for Manfredi is a new, much younger partner Joana (Croatian actress Tihana Lazović).
There is also the son Vito (Leonardo Vidi), who arrives with his partner Adelina (Alba Rohrwacher), whom he plans to marry, but they have no money, so they hope that their parents will step in again and lend them money after they previously splashed the money they received for the start-up business. They are accompanied by their daughter Alma, as well as a pet peacock, which the girl did not want to leave alone at home. And everyone is hiding something from each other, pretending at a family lunch and trying to present themselves in the best possible light and to cover up their failures in life, and the situation will escalate when the peacock decides to pretend to be a seagull and jumps from the balcony of the third floor of the building.
The fact is that we have already had the opportunity to watch a handful of interesting and better films with a similar theme, in which family members who have not seen each other for a long time gather for certain reasons. The exceptional “August: Osage County” immediately comes to mind, where it was performed much, much better. Although the experienced Laura Bisupuri (the previous “Figla Mia” also with Alba Rohrwacher, but also Valerio Golino was somewhat better) gathered that good cast, I still found “Il paradiso sel pavone” somehow mediocre, average in which solidly used metaphor of a peacock flaunting its luxurious feathers until it lands upside down from the terrace.