Labor strife in an umbrella factory run for several generations by the subject family. Unfortunately the film was played as broad farce and lost me in the first five minutes. Seemed more like a cartoon than anything approaching real life. But it wasn't funny...or even amusing.
It's very hard to feel anything toward characters who behave like idiots. And I hate to say it but the two leads really should hang it up. To my eye they both degraded themselves in this mess and took away from the otherwise fine careers they both had. And what's up with this director? He's done several interesting films in past years. Maybe next time...
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