Just out in Italy, A Morte!, directed by Gianluca Sulis. I’m not quite sure what to make of this one: it looks like it has an interesting premise, but one which could easily become bogged down in polemic and, well, talk. It goes something like this:
After a brief stint working in a call center, Mark, a young graduate, tries to finance his masters degree by performing as a clown. Faced with a reality in which both university professors and politicians charm people with false promises, Mark and some friends, driven by a deep desire for justice as well as anger and desperation, carry out an apparently crazy gesture: kidnapping two representatives of the cynival and venal world they find themselves: a professor and a politician.
Mark chooses an old abandoned mine to act as his prison, where he holds them and subjects them to a series of idiosyncratic interviews as he attempts to find answers to the problems of life.
This was a small budget production, costing just €65,000, from a new director and with an unkownn cast, and it has only opened in two cinemas, so we shouldn’t expect too much of it. But at least it marks a break from the usual comedies that clog up the Italian box office over the xmas period…
Here’s the trailer (Italian only):