(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 21 - How many have been the spells on the set of I Cassamortari?
This is the question that comes naturally to this 'comedy noir' in which one of the protagonists is a dead man, the rock singer Gabriele Arcangelo (Piero Pelù), who enters and exits the coffin, subjecting himself, each time, to the aesthetic.
Directed by Claudio Amendola, the film, on March 24th with Vision, tells the story of the Pasti family, which for several generations has owned a funeral home founded by Giuseppe (Edoardo Leo) under the motto: "When you die there is only one who earns it ".
However, this will not be the case with his departure, when the company's business will pass to his children, namely: the miser Giovanni (Massimo Ghini), Maria (Lucia Ocone) who has a fatal attraction for all his newly widowed customers, Marco (Gian MarcoTognazzi) expert in thanatoaesthetics, the embellishment of the corpses, and finally Matteo (Alessandro Sperduti) the youngest and most expert in social media.
When the funeral home will go through a moment of economic crisis, it will be thanks to his communication that the Pasti family will organize the funeral of Gabriele Arcangelo, who paradoxically died of an overdose during a sensitization campaign against drugs.
"It all started on the sofa at home from a conversation between me and Francesca Neri - says Amendola - who is, among other things, one of the screenwriters. I was very amused - she adds - the idea of making a film on cassamortari which is a work so 'extended' that sooner or later it affects us all. It was also a means to speak in a desecrating and cynical way of hypocrisy, esocial money that I, among other things, do not frequent ".
(HANDLE).