Sonetàula (2008)

Director:

Salvatore Mereu

Writers:

Giuseppe Fiori (novel)
Salvatore Mereu (screenplay)

Release Date:

8 March 2008 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A Sardinian boy torn from his father by false accusations is raised by his grandfather and becomes an outlaw. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Francesco Falchetto	...	Sonetàula
Manuela Martelli	...	Maddalena
Antonio Crisponi	...	Giuseppino Ragazzo
Serafino Spiggia	...	Cicerone
Giuseppe Cuccu	...	Giobatta Irde
Lazar Ristovski	...	Egidio Malune
Giselda Volodi	...	Rosa Tanchis

Runtime:

Germany:157 min (Berlin International Film Festival)

Country:

Italy | France | Belgium

Language:

Italian | Sardinian

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Sardinia, Italy

Company:

Lucky Red

Movie Connections:

References The Enforcer (1951)

Guilt(y)

The thing is, that you might want to like this movie and want it to be like a neo-realistic masterpiece (I know I wanted to like it but it didn't work, wasn't meant to be. Instead you get a slow moving drama, that flashes ... but only into the back (flashbacks to be exact) or the past to be exact.

It's not that it's a bad movie per se or that the actors aren't any good. It's just that the story drags and it seems as if does not have anything in particular to say. Which wouldn't be a bad thing, if it were just out there to entertain, but for a movie that's supposed to have a message, it's just to little to get excited about. There's nothing much about the story that fully works, a short summary can be read here at IMDb though