Year: 2008 Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Distribution: 01
Based on the novel by Niccolo 'Amman, winner Strega Prize, "As God commands," reports Gabriele Salvatores behind the camera after "Quo Vadis Baby?". The outcome of this new direction is fluctuating, due to a script perhaps too brief compared to the long novel that inspires.
Northern Italy. Rino Zena is a violent father, but very close to his son Christian who tries to grow despite the boy's shyness and social services that they would split. During a late night a friend of theirs, Quattroformaggi, rapes and murders a girl friend of the school of Christ. Rino racing to the rescue of the girl but it's late and took a moment of anger, he suffered a heart attack. It is a Christian, then, to fix the ugly face of blood ...
For the second time after "I'm Not Scared" Salvatores inspired by a novel in Amman, but this time with results not so happy. Salvatores's film, in fact, is too fragmented models of various parts together. A first in which we witness of Christian education, a second micro-universe in which we know the characters, and a third dedicated to the act of violence, until the final, taking away much of the intimate nature of the novel Twilight, in a blatant prejudice all happy end, not in tune with the tenor of the story. In short, the director, trying to catch the many aspects that made up the whole novel loses sight of the main themes of the plot, or the incomprehensibility of the act and the lack of total security man, placed himself in front of their own destiny on which does not have any control.
For the second time after "I'm Not Scared" Salvatores inspired by a novel in Amman, but this time with results not so happy. Salvatores's film, in fact, is too fragmented models of various parts together. A first in which we witness of Christian education, a second micro-universe in which we know the characters, and a third dedicated to the act of violence, until the final, taking away much of the intimate nature of the novel Twilight, in a blatant prejudice all happy end, not in tune with the tenor of the story. In short, the director, trying to catch the many aspects that made up the whole novel loses sight of the main themes of the plot, or the incomprehensibility of the act and the lack of total security man, placed himself in front of their own destiny on which does not have any control. Good actors, however, Filippo Timi, very persuasive. Weaker interpretation of Elio Germano, a bit 'too smug.
Diego Altobelli (2008)
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