18 | 130min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Stefano Sollima
Writers: Giancarlo De Cataldo (story), Carlo Bonini (story)
Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola
There sure are a lot of ends to put together in the first part of this film. It's not easy viewing because of that, or because of the graphic depictions of violence. At about 40 minutes in, I was wondering whether to bear with it or not... I'm glad I did though. From then on, I was hooked.
You begin to see what's going on here: corruption. Of all kinds. Underage prostitutes with politicians. Papal corruption. Gypsies. Mafia. The bourgeois. Everyone. The underbelly of Roman crime. Nasty stuff.
When you see a movie like this, it's amazing to think that it's from the same country as the romantic colours of "The Postman" and "Mediterraneo"...
Anyway, there is a lot of money to be made in Ostia, and area near Rome which could be "the new Las Vegas". As long as the legislation is approved on a parliamentary level. It all gets very complicated and messy when a murder takes place which was never really planned, but sparks off a sequence of events. Everything seems to hang on the appropriately named politican Malgradi (Pierfrancesco Favino), whose son in kidnapped.
GRIM.
