GIANNI AND WOMEN
Gianni Di Gregorio,
ITALY, 2011
Two Italian films presented last (faded) Berlin Film Festival: Any and Gianni and women . The first, as would Andreotti, Italy makes it a disservice, not only because it is mercilessly our political situation, but mainly because it is a bad film, indeed, as mentioned above is not even cinema. The second one is how much better can now give our cinema. Therefore easy to understand the result at the box office more than 15 million in the first, less than half a million for the second.
Gianni and women is written, directed and performed by Gianni di Gregorio, just like his debut film.
In this new chapter in which each actor bears his name to the character, John is a senior not know how to pass the time, given that everyone ignores. The only one who has the time and advice to him is his friend Alfonso (Alfonso Santagata), which spurs him to be a mistress. It could be summed up as this film does not tell much yet he could talk for hours. There is standard throughout Italy in this film, that of respectable families, where there is no dialogue in the couple, or where the children do nothing but prepare for exams or do nothing and where mothers are overwhelming. Nobody listens to poor Hans but everyone will benefit. Her character is under the thumb of the other just as in the previous Mid-August Lunch it was the mother. Now the figure of the mother (the terrific ninety Valeria de Franciscis Bendoni) add that the wife who treats him with disdain just because he's home and then can execute all the orders you give him, his daughter Teresa (Teresa Di Gregorio, his daughter in real life) takes care of him but he has little time for study and should not you decide to leave the boy Michelangelo (Michelangelo Ciminale, already admired in the delightful Cosmonaut ) and in the meantime, their lives and does nothing from morning till night. It is with the latter, paradoxically, John spends more time, creating a kind of male solidarity. There is a nice neighbor who asked only favors the intriguing carer of his mother who sees him as a grandfather, mother of the same age (including the sticky Lili, played by the diva of the '40s Lilia Silvi, absent from the screen for more than sixty years), who treated her like a servant or a chauffeur. In short, the threshold of old age can not find Gianni its space and its identity in a society that is too busy. He wanders the streets of a sunny Rome along with his dog, reminding both Umberto D. in content, style and means there is a lot of De Sica (Vittorio, of course) and neo-realism in this film, like in the previous work of the director. The bitterness of the fund that mixes melancholy and reality, the sober style, the actors are not (all) professionals and unknown, the low budget (but still higher than the first film) put this film in a national tradition that gave much prestige to the Italian cinema of the past, so other recent achievements.
A movie that distills one thousand thoughts in small doses, which depicts the reality without too much lime tones, without recourse to the grotesque or farcical, or more popular with the stereotype. Yet amazingly current. In a nutshell one of the few honest film released recently on our screens.
Many critics have found it not very consistent at the bottom (the plot actually does not touch upon many of the ideas that promised to develop) but then how to define the rest of Italian cinema screens in the past on the last six months?
Gianni di Gregorio, a veteran of the great success of Mid-August Lunch , steep-sided € 2 million at home and more than 5 the rest of the world (particularly successful in France, UK and Spain), quadrupled the budget of the previous quarter and not to cash this is a great pity, indeed a scandal. excellent writer (his film but also Gomorrah), a great actor and talented director, Gregory continues to be a complete artist and one of the most valuable personality in the Italian cinema. Unfortunately you can not rely on word of mouth and success in growing as a film for his debut this week and the competition is absolutely fierce, but I trust in the market abroad. Because this is the Italian cinema, and we should see more often.
If I was not clear enough to see him run !
VOTE: 7 +
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