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Overview

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Director:
Paolo Sorrentino
Writer:
Paolo Sorrentino (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 November 2006 (Italy) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
User Comments:
Don't Go Overboard more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Giacomo Rizzo ... Geremia De Geremei
Laura Chiatti ... Rosalba De Luca
Luigi Angelillo ... Saverio (as Gigi Angelillo)
Marco Giallini ... Attanasio
Barbara Valmorin ... Nonna al bingo
Luisa De Santis ... Silvia
Clara Bindi ... Madre di Geremia
Roberta Fiorentini ... Moglie di Saverio
Elia Schilton ... Teasuro
Lorenzo Gioielli ... Montanaro
Emilio De Marchi ... Chef
Giorgio Colangeli ... Massa

Fabio Grossi ... Cognato di Saverio
Lucia Ragni ... Cassiera
Fabrizio Bentivoglio ... Gino
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Family Friend (Australia) (festival title) (UK) (festival title)
Friend of the Family (USA) (literal English title)
L'ami de la famille (France)
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Runtime:
102 min | France:110 min (Cannes Film Festival)
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
UK:15 | Italy:T
Filming Locations:
Latina, Lazio, Italy more
Company:
Fandango more

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Trivia:
Dedicated to Lorenzo and Tommaso. more
Quotes:
Geremia De Geremei: Never confuse the improbable with the impossible. more
Soundtrack:
Cello concerto in E minor, op. 85 more

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13 out of 43 people found the following comment useful:-
Don't Go Overboard, 23 March 2007
Author: tiarings from United Kingdom

This film is not the great piece of cinema many critics/ viewers seem to think it is or want it to be. It has the occasional effective moment/ sequence, and the use of sub-bass was quite original and evocative in the sound mix. However, it's essentially trying to be an art-house film with enough mainstream/generic or light-hearted moments to appeal to your average non-art-house-watching, can't-handle-it-too-grim-or-arty cinema goer. Therefore, it's hugely flawed. It's not really that dark, for instance, despite a bit of dark posturing, and the more likable/ morally "okay" characters win out in the film's irritatingly moral conclusion. The bonding between the bingo-playing old bat and the cowboy sidekick was almost sickening, and was completely unnecessary if the film wanted to maintain a vaguely black/amoral tone (which it did initially appear to be striving for). I personally find the Coen brother's work to combine humour and a an enjoyably surreal darkness far more effectively, and to maintain a more amoral tone. It does not bare comparison to Fellini at all, for one thing there's none of that crazy visual bravura in the mis-en-scene here, and most of time and there's a deeply middle-brow quality to narrative proceedings. Unlike the great Italian films of 60s/ 70s (Visconti, Antonioni etc) the film is quite uninterestingly shot most of the time, with an overuse of extreme close-ups and close-ups, and with a very standard sense of pace in the editing. To be honest, even Dario Argento is far more visually exciting.

The inclusion of the thriller plot towards the end of film simply does not work that well, and feels contrived and somewhat unengaging: the film suddenly decides it no longer wishes to be a slightly arty character-study of a despicable old money lender and tries to be David Mamet to get the audience "on the edge of their seats" - it had the opposite effect for me ultimately. The supporting characters are rubbish - the cowboy friend is like something out of a bad "quirky" short film and the super model girl has no *beep* personality at all... The old woman who's addicted to bingo? God, it's almost Father Ted territory and without the madcap humour or silliness to make such stereotypes genuinely funny.

Some of the music was quite well-used however, and it is still better than another moving/ funny film about the Holocaust or films about small boys and their relationships with wise old men who work in cinemas.

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