{"id":2540,"date":"2011-05-10T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2011-05-10T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:27:28","slug":"hai-paura-del-buio-aka-afraid-of-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/hai-paura-del-buio-aka-afraid-of-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Hai paura del buio, aka Afraid of the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of a couple of interesting new films that have been released in Italy this week is Hai paura del buio<\/strong>, aka Afraid of the Dark<\/em> (and also Bruises<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s another downbeat film, heavily influenced by neo-realism and the miserablist likes of Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers, a format which seems extremely popular with Italian filmmakers at the moment (although some other sources descirbe it as a comedy, so who knows!)\u00a0 Director Massimo Coppola is a graduate from documentaries, and there’s a familiar face in the cast in Angela Goodwin, who has been around since the early seventies….<\/p>\n

Here’s the review from Mubi<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A visceral and energetic first feature film about a young woman who packs up her flat, leaves her job in Romania, and travels to a small town in Northern Italy to try and locate her mother, who she has not seen in nearly a decade. Like a cuckoo in a nest, the young girl manages to inveigle her way, without much explanation, into the home of a family who have a daughter of a similar age, who works in the local Fiat factory. Gradually the leading character, while tracking down her mother (for a mixture of reunion, recrimination and revenge) starts to become part of her host Italian family\u2019s life; also acting as a carer for the elderly grandmother. Afraid of the Dark (Bruises)<\/em> is a real attempt to give a slice of \u2013 particularly young people\u2019s \u2013 life in an unfashionable part of Italy; neither wealthy nor glamorous. With an inventive story and a raw, edgy feel (embellished by bursts of Joy Division on the soundtrack), this is a very promising debut from filmmaker Massimo Coppola, and is produced by Indigo (the group behind all of Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s work): here once again demonstrating a real flair for finding new talent. \u2014Adrian Wootton<\/p>\n

It’s being shown on 41 screens, not too bad a showing.<\/p>\n

Here’s the trailer:<\/p>\n

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