A slacker always careful to avoid confrontation forms a friendship with a neighborhood gangster who intrudes on his life
“The turning point” first work by Riccardo Antonaroli, from 20 October on Netflix after passing the Turin Film Festival, it is a film by crime genre but with evident ambitions ranging from literature to cinema, of which it bears the weight of many clichés. They are cited Sophocles and Tolstoysorry if it is little, and as for cinephilia there is a mixture in which the esteem for emerges Dino Risia great of our comedy and not only, but in the room of the depressed protagonist who finds himself embroiled in an episode of crime news at Garbatella, there are also two other posters, “The spiral staircase” great thriller by Siodmak and then, who knows why , also “The doctor in the military district” as a tribute to the Italian pseudo-erotic vein.
The first victim it is the shy Ludovico, who already appeared as such in De Sica’s stanzas, the real one, Vittorio, because a criminal happens to be in the house looking for shelter after having snatched a dangerous gangster neighborhood that unleashes its little bosses ready to kill. I’m desperate hoursas in Wyler’s film, the boy, designer and lover of graphics and comics, is kidnapped at home, but soon there is acharacter osmosis and the newcomer, with his masterly airmacha and primordial, helps him to be disenchanted with the world and also with the neighbor whom he does not have the courage to declare himself and who will be, with her brazen Spanish friend, the cause of the disaster.
The film must bear the weight of the capital crime genre of which you can’t take it anymore (the boss says so too, the Roman forced dialect even no), the side dishes are all mannered, the bad ones, including Max Malatesta e Marcello FonteI’m from graphic novelhave didactic names, while and the last quarter of an hour has nothing to envy to the massacres of one Elizabethan tragedy. But if in this sad suburb, which begins and ends with a downpour of rain, the data is predictable he almost puppet actorsInstead, the attempt at friendship between these two very different peers works. A neurotic, with a hat on his head, skinny and confused at home and in his feelings; the other is a leader who is ruined with his own hands, underestimating the laws of the Camorra despite having a brother already missing.
But the birth of a friendship between these two guys like that divided by fate is the reason of interest of the story written by Gabriele Scarfone and Roberto Cimpanelli, who in this a blatant reference al “Overtaking” of which the poster in the spyder by Gassmann and Trintignant stands out, while the last drawing that melts in the rain makes one think of Charlot. This strange couplelo insecure student and the arrogant suburban bad boy that I dream of escaping to some earthly paradise, is well managed by two young actors who joke with pleasure, Brando Pacittothe bourgeois born loser and Andrea Lattanzi, the born loser proletarian. In the soundtrack a Roman rapper, Carl BraveAndrea Lattanzi puts his own.
May 18, 2022 (change May 18, 2022 | 09:05)
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