(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - VENICE, 11 SEPTEMBER - "Three mixed styles: BusterKeaton, a familiar French play with a naturalist breath and an Italian comedy like 'Brutti dirchi e cattivi'. PietroCastellitto is young, it's true, but he didn't a young film ".
Thus Massimo Popolizio, as the most talented of critics, describes with extreme clarity at the Lido the surprising first work of Castellitto 'son', 28, who made an intelligent and original debut with I predatori.
Presented in competition in Orizzonti at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, the film, on show from 22 October with 01, has a simple moral: a Nazi-fascist family complete with a gun shop and a radical chic bourgeoisie, equal in terms of predatory ability.
So it is at least for the bourgeois Pavone, with a doctor father (Popolizio) and authoritarian director mother (Manuela Mandracchia) and for the Vismaras with head of the family (Giorgio Montanini) at the beginning with the cult of fascism and that of arms.
Among all this, the philosophical madness of a boy Federico (Pietro Castellitto himself), a young assistant of philosophy, son of the 'politically correct' Peacock, very angry about something that was quite marginal for him: he was left out of the group chosen for the exhumation of Nietzsche's body. .
"It is not an anti-fascist film, but if anything anti-bourgeois, even if the fascists I show are very colorful, it is because the squad changes face, it becomes more and more refined, but not the substance. But one thing is certain: they need the weapons to be predators, bourgeois no ", explains Castellitto.
What does it mean to be a 'son of art'?
"There are those who, unlike me, go to the right places to find work, but for whom I live my condition others see only advantages. It is not so, sometimes you feel real frustration when that world you are facing already knows you and you judge ".
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