Malcolm Marie, a couple Carnage in black and white

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 06 - Perhaps a simple 'thank you', said at the right moment, would have been enough to avoid a stormy night between 'Malcolm & Marie', even if, considering everything, this is not true at all.

In this black and white 'Carnage' full of 'fucking' and 'bullshit' (the most used words), there is all the hate that often hides love when there is still passion.

Plus there is the immense vanity of two artists who confront each other, challenge each other, provoke each other, envy each other.

    The theatrical film, which landed on Netflix from February 5 and written and directed by Sam Levinson (author of Euphoriae son of the best known Barry), stars Malcolm (John David Washington), an African American director, full of himself after the premiere full of good reviews of his latest film, and his partner Marie (Zendaya), a former actress and drug addict.

    What happens between the two just back home?

The hell.

It all starts subdued: she accuses him of having neglected her at the premier, of having made the idiot with the beautiful starring actress and also of not being jealous of her.

He defends himself as best he can, denies, counterattacks.

The quarrel then takes on a jazz trend, that is to say that one goes for solos: one of the duemonologa at length, arguing accusations, and the other listens in silence, just waiting for his turn.

We fight, we make peace for a while and then we start again.

    Among a thousand cinematic quotes, this sort of 'wedding scene' in American sauce shot, among other things, totally during the lockdown with its added value of neurosis, proceeds claustrophobic, but with an intelligent script (as it is for the monologue in which Malcolm lists common places of some criticism of blacks, just as he and his partner are.)

(HANDLE).