Bertolucci is a past master.  One need not worry about camera setups or poorly scripted narratives with this maestro.  But it has been some time since Bernardo set about making a film.  His last major film-film, before Me & You, was in 1996 (Stealing Beauty). But, at 73 or so, he has produced a surprising yet lapidary film: intimate, charming, unexpected. Lorenzo (a believable Jacopo Olmo Antinori), a 14-year-old in Rome, decides he won’t be hassled by going on a class skiing trip.  Instead, he stocks up on food and drink, linens, and electronics, and goes down to his own basement, where his mother has no idea he is hiding out without the necessity to answer to her or teachers.  He calls occasionally from his cell to lie to his mother about the snow and the group’s activities.  The fly in his ointment arrives in the person of his older half-sister, Olivia (Tea Falco, also quite good), who is sick with trying to kick her heroin habit....(Read Full Post)