(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 08 - An outpost on nothingness that remembers THE DESERT OF THE TARTARS by Valerio Zurlini, but with menospleen and a surplus of ferocity.
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by Ciro Guerra with Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson and Greta Scacchi - already in competition at the Lido and from March 9 it debuts in DVD and Blu-Ray editions and in digital format on the main On Demand platforms (CG Digital, Apple TV, iTunes , Chili, Rakuten Tv, Google Play) - thus presents itself with less poetry, but with as much charm.
Based on the novel of the same name by Nobel laureate JM Coetzee, who wrote the screenplay, the film tells the story of the crisis of conscience of a magistrate (Rylance) who slowly rebels against the regime in a remote outpost on the edge of a nameless empire.
Engine of his rebellion?
Colonel Joll (Depp), sadistic torturer and torturer of barbarians who always wears sunglasses.
"The most interesting thing about the bad guys - explained Depp on the Lido - is that they are sadistic and masochistic at the same time. They are people who wash themselves in the morning, shave and certainly do not say that they are the baddest people in the world. Maybe this villain - adds the cult actor of Tim Burton - he has a broken heart from a father or a mother in his childhood. A sadist is also a masochist, there is not one without the other. "
"Joll - he continues - should only control the activities of the 'barbarians' beyond the border and guarantee security, but he sees enemies everywhere and thus enjoys torturing even the sheep thieves, causing everything to degenerate".
(HANDLE).