Novelistic, literally in the spirit of "Decameron" the beginning - in a country house gather several people who thus escape from the flu epidemic in Paris - sets up false expectations. It seems that such a plot should direct the film in the direction of revealing complicated stories with their backstory and possible flashbacks for this style.
No, relationship clarification is inevitable. Between parents and adult children has long run more than one cat, especially easily blamed on the mother, who because of love for her husband deprived the attention of their children, and they, growing up, can not forgive her. There is an obvious parallel with the Autumn Sonata, although one should not think that it is necessary. Just its intimacy, small-figure and dramatic accuracy (still it is not a movie, but a television film), achieved and with the help of a little trembling and as if amateurishly following the characters (by the way, this is a bluff, because Angelo is originally the operator, not the director), because of which there is an easy effect of presence, the film is shot in the Chekhov style.
Do not expect bursts of passions and shots of sudden decisions (however, one, there is a Chekhov shot, but it was played more like Renoirovski). Angelo is not interested in paroxysms and deviations of family skeletons in the closet. He shoots such an appealing, almost classic family drama, giving everyone a voice, but pointing to the imperfection of everyone. Therefore, we can say that the matter is not in Chekhov, but rather in Romer, his “moral parables”, “Women’s Kindness” seems to continue this line, which is unusually pleasant, as well as any good return to the traditions of literary cinema.
7 out of 10