Il siero della vanità (2004)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Alex Infascelli

Writers:

Niccolò Ammaniti (story) and
Antonio Manzini (screenplay)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

The vips of italian television disappear in a mysterious way. Two detectives, Lucia and Franco, try to investigate in this mystery, drowning into a strange world, where the leader is the powerful star Sonia Norton. |

Plot Keywords:

Television | Based On Novel

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Margherita Buy	...	Lucia Allasco
Francesca Neri	...	Sonia Norton
Valerio Mastandrea	...	Franco Berardi
Barbora Bobulova	...	Azzurra Rispoli
Antonino Bruschetta	...	Vittorio Terracciano (as Ninni Bruschetta)
Maddalena Maggi	...	Esther Bonanni
Marco Cortesi	...	Matteo De Muzzi
Rolando Ravello
Adriana Faranda	...	Talk Show Host
Antonio Ianiello	...	Pasquale Terracciano
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giovanni Argante	...	D. Calaciura
Francesca Barone	...	Marina
Barbara Bonanni
Daniele Borgia	...	Assisstente di studio
Marica Coco
Armando De Razza
Carlo De Ruggeri
Marco Giallini	...	Michele Benda
Rosario J. Gnolo
Alessandro Mario	...	Barienghi
Luis Molteni	...	Rocco Piccolo
Nicola Paduano
Roberto Riccardi
Lucio Vinciarelli
Julius Zagon	...	Goritto

Also Known As:

The Vanity Serum (International: English title)

Runtime:

Italy:92 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Italy:T

Filming Locations:

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Rodeo Drive

Soundtrack:

Un cuore in soffitta

Just a little better than Il cartaio

Mediocre italian giallo, based on a novel by Niccolò ammaniti and directed by Infascelli, this movie has only a couple of excellent scenes (like the death of the comedian Rocco)on a too derivative script, that tries to make fun in a corrosive way on the power of television talk shows (the target of the writer is a notorious italian talk show), but the plot is contrived, full of holes as big as houses (while the assassin did not check the demise of the police woman, for example?), the acting is always really poor with very few exceptions (and this is a shame as most of the actors and actresses involved are normally really good). All in all, this is another example of the abysmal level of the new wave of Italian giallos, best exemplified by the terrible Il Cartaio. This one is definetily better, but only slightly so.