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On Netflix the action film that opened the Locarno Film Festival, «Beckett», by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino. Story of an ordinary man who crosses the fatal shock

From Thursday 12 August, the action film that opened the Locarno Film Festival, “Beckett”, shot by the Milanese Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, great-grandson of Luchino Visconti, in a Greece not yet devastated by fires, is available on Netflix. A thriller like the director of the film about the poet Antonia Pozzi has dreamed of since “The three days of the Condor” and “Missing”. But the prototype of any man embroiled in something bigger than him has ancient roots and one thinks of Hitchcock with his Cary Grants and James Stewart (Sakamoto’s soundtrack echoes Herrmann).

It is John David Washington, junior of Denzel, football champion, star of “Tenet” (shot later) who, as a Yankee tourist in Greece, loses his girlfriend in a car accident and is then hunted down by a merciless, alarming and mysterious manhunt whose political matrix he recognizes: almost international intrigue. Very physical role, almost all shot between leaps and jumps in the air without a double, even if the body is not a model, all supported by a beautiful evocative rhythm, in which one recognizes the love for cinema.

Also produced by Luca Guadagnino, «Beckett» (sure he hasn’t nothing to do with the writer of the absurd?) is a manhunt story, but no super heroes here it is an ordinary man who crosses the fatal shock. In the cast Alicia Vikander in Fassbender and the good Vicky Krieps in the European role of an activist against the god of money, since we are in Greece oppressed by the economic crisis and punished by European capitalism, taken without landscape rhetoric, so that nature is always very expressive.

Filomarino demonstrates mastery of the medium, passing from the interior of a suicidal poetess (the sensitive film about Pozzi) at the breathtaking rush of this tourist by chance in the middle of a kidnapping. Washington throws and jumps everywhere as requested, but he too comes from an intimate movie like “Malcolm & Marie” that can always be seen on Netflix. Before or after.

“Beckett,” by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, 2021, Netflix

August 12, 2021 (change August 12, 2021 | 20:26)

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