Review of   Ignazio Venzano Ignazio Venzano

Dry

(Film, 2022)

Sometimes it happens that the plot of a film is not linear, especially if, as in this case, the different characters that appear are connected only by the external factor of drought. Everyone leads their own life and of course they also meet, but the varied humanity of a city like Rome, which is not normally the best place for collective collaboration  (see for example the waste case), when it hasn't rained for such a long time, everything is now dry, completely dry (even the Tiber!), even more so it expresses even more markedly individual drives that result in various dramas, the most evident being that of those who try to get rich by taking advantage of the situation. Well acted, it keeps the attention alive: sometimes it's not clear where and how things are resolved, but everything or almost everything makes sense in the end.