A gravely ill patriarch gathers his family for a momentous revelation. It is hardly cinema’s freshest premise, but & Sons gives it an unusual turn – one best left undisclosed, though it gently pushes the story towards science fiction. The father is a celebrated novelist, as withdrawn as JD Salinger and as bearded and bedraggled as Catweazle. Having produced nothing for decades, the fictional AN Dyer first appears stretched across a sofa, refusing to answer the telephone. “I don’t do phone

On Sunday evening, Gustavo Monasterios went to bed as a citizen of Venezuela. By Monday morning, he had learned that he was also Italian. Monasterios, 47, found himself at the center of a legal upheaval that shook Italy last week. After almost two years of mounting limits on citizenship by descent, during which government decisions closed the route to an Italian passport for large parts of the diaspora, Italy’s highest court struck down one major restriction following a lawsuit filed by