Once upon a time there was a dream that now exists no more
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.
- Harm to children
- Bleak ending
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Feb 20266/10
This is a fairly savage indictment of suburban family living. Set on the outskirts of Rome - but it could as easily be London or Paris, this swaps the role normalcies of aspects of parenthood and visits the perceived sins of the parents back on themselves by way of their own children. Having been brought up in a comfortable enough swamp of ennui and uninspired hopelessness, it’s the children who decide that vengeance will be their’s as they, often entirely independently, plot revenge on those whose physical and cerebral inertia they feel has condemned them to perpetuate the mundanity of their parent’s lives. The theme is also quite portentous as although these families live in close proximity, there is little sense of community here. Instead, we have quite a potent sense of isolation that is only going to be exacerbated by social media trends that further negate the need for these youngsters to physically interact with anyone face-to-face. The parents range from the lovingly indifferent to the selfishly unbothered whilst the kids manage to come up with some remarkably grown up strategies to inflict their revenge, and along the way we expose and sometimes reinforce sexual stereotypi
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Cast
- Elio GermanoBruno Placido
- Tommaso Di ColaDennis Placido
- Giulietta RebeggianiAlessia Placido
- Gabriel MontesiAmelio Guerrini
- Justin Alexander KorovkinGeremia Guerrini
- Barbara ChichiarelliDalila Placido
- Lino MusellaProfessor Bernardini
- Ileana D'AmbraVilma Tommasi
- Max MalatestaPietro Rosa
- Aldo OttobrinoPadre di Ada
Crew
- Damiano D'InnocenzoDirector
- Fabio D'InnocenzoDirector
- Fabio D'InnocenzoWriter
- Damiano D'InnocenzoWriter
- Paolo CarneraDirector of Photography
- Esmeralda CalabriaEditor
- Giuseppe SaccàProducer
- Agostino SaccàProducer
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