Completed - ITALIAN - Drama - 95 minutes
Year of production : 2015 Director(s) : Ascanio CELESTINI Cast : Alba ROHRWACHER, Ascanio CELESTINI
Nicola lives as a puppeteer in one of the bleaker parts of the outskirts of Rome, among pettycriminals and drifters, immigrants and laborers. He drinks too much but takes care of theadolescent Salvatore, who may be or not be his son by a local prostitute. His widowed motherhas tried to set him up with his schoolfriend Sofia for twenty years, but somehow, they nevergot together. One day while driving around in his van, he hits and kills Sabatino, an old man,in what at first appears to be an accident. But the old man, who lived off insurance scams bystaging accidents with unsuspecting drivers, was simply drunk and miscalculated whilestepping in front of Nicola’s car. Still shaken, Nicola offers his help to Sabatino’s son and hismentally handicapped brother and is drawn himself into a netherworld of petty crime gonewrong where everybody’s lives are damaged by the unintended consequences of theiractions. He makes his way through the days and nights of a country where there is no hope,but neither is there despair, since the opposite of hope at times is not despair but fatalism
Country(ies) : ITALY, FRANCE, BELGIUM
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Ventana Sur 2015 European CinemaVenice Days 2015 (competition)