Post by Capo on Apr 17, 2007 21:36:26 GMT
Romanzo criminale
Michele Placido 2005 Italy / UK / France / USA
In 1970s, three childhood friends decide to take over Rome's underworld, and are undone by their own ambition and greed.
It sounds like familiar stuff, and for the most part it is, but this epic film, full of dingy, washed-out settings and brilliant acting, has a drive and sustained energy which must be admired, given its two-and-a-half hour running time. It isn't as romanticised as, for example, the Sicilian scenes from The Godfather Part II, which works in its favour, and the music, a mixture between American funk records and an original, composed score, lends it a weight it would otherwise be void of. If anything, it could have been even longer, with deeper delves into these characters who find themselves, in the course of the film, at the mercy of the ebb and flow of interesting and expendable.
Michele Placido 2005 Italy / UK / France / USA
In 1970s, three childhood friends decide to take over Rome's underworld, and are undone by their own ambition and greed.
It sounds like familiar stuff, and for the most part it is, but this epic film, full of dingy, washed-out settings and brilliant acting, has a drive and sustained energy which must be admired, given its two-and-a-half hour running time. It isn't as romanticised as, for example, the Sicilian scenes from The Godfather Part II, which works in its favour, and the music, a mixture between American funk records and an original, composed score, lends it a weight it would otherwise be void of. If anything, it could have been even longer, with deeper delves into these characters who find themselves, in the course of the film, at the mercy of the ebb and flow of interesting and expendable.