Torta di mele(1993)

Torta di mele is an Italian drama about Carlo, an elderly widowed farmer preparing to marry Elena, a young Brazilian woman. He invites his adult children to his countryside home for a family gathering, setting the stage for complicated emotional reckoning. As the household fills with tension and unspoken resentments, Carlo's unconventional choice forces his family to confront their assumptions about love, aging, and inheritance. The film explores how a single decision can unravel decades of family dynamics, blending quiet rural landscapes with the intimate conflicts that simmer beneath the surface of domestic life. What begins as a celebration becomes a pressure cooker where old wounds resurface and everyone must reckon with who Carlo really is beyond his role as patriarch.