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Two young Albanians, Gheni and Gherti are divided by a deep difference
of character. Thanks to the help of their employer, they find a place to sleep at Corrado‘s house. Corrado is a photographer
who lives in Parioli, a residential area of Rome. One day Gherti, tired of Gheni‘s behaviour, decides to give up his job and
thereafter finds himself in limbo without any goal. Gherti meets Lino who is looking for his wife, whose strange behaviour
made him lose his job. The woman, completely mad, vanishes and Lino is afraid that she could be the unidentified body found
on the beach. Garrone brilliantly underlines the sad destinies of so many contemporary immigrants. This no-budget feature,
with its unobtrusive, fly-on-the-wall camera style, gets right under the skin of the characters it explores with so much fascination
and sympathy. Garrone proves once again that he‘s a dedicated realist whose affection for marginalized characters is producing
an increasingly interesting body of work in the area of social realism. (David Stratton)
Tribute · Tribute to Matteo Garrone
2004
Matteo
Garrone
Italy 1998
color
78
minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Attilio Caselli, Matteo Garrone
Cinematography
Marco Onorato
Editing Marco
Spoletini
Music Banda Osiris
With Corrado Sassi, Pasqualino Mura, Julian Sota, Llazar Sota, Paolo Sassanelli
Production
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