Americano functions both as an homage to Demy’s famous parents, filmmakers Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy, and as a work that stands entirely on its own. The film is a deeply moving drama about inheritance and legacy that deftly mines the past of a true-life filmmaking family, while at the same time weaving a mesmerizing fictional narrative about coming to terms with unattended grief and uncomfortable pasts. The stellar cast includes, perhaps not incidentally, the children of famous film personalities — Geraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni and Demy himself — in addition to Salma Hayek.