Looking for Alibrandi

The movie "Looking for Alibrandi" is centred around the growth and development of the relations among the three generations of Alibrandi women. And how growing up is complex, especially in a society with different cultural background. This is the major issue the movie discusses. A realistic view through the eyes of a seventeen-year old Italian girl, Josephine Alibrandi, a Catholic school girl in her final high school year. She attends St. Martha's, a wealthy catholic …

…Italy, it was customary for arranged marriages to be set up by ones parents. This is the situation that "nonna" found herself in. However, she committed adultery, and had a child that was not fathered by Josie’s grandfather. This child was Josie's mother, and Francesco always resented her. While Josie never met him, she was aware of the situation between her mother and him, and of the unusual situation between him and her grandmother.