Flowing

Film - 2022

6,7

182.2K

Flowing it's a movie with Fabrizio Rongione, Cristiana Dell'Anna, Francesco Gheghi, Aurora Menenti, Leon de La Vallée Full cast. Directed by Paolo Strippoli. Original title Piove, runtime 95 minutes. Genres Horror, Thriller.

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Il Buio In Sala - Giuseppe Armellini

Paolo Strippoli had co-directed A Classic Horror Story with De Feo (by the way, I never reviewed that film but seeing it a second time it grew on me much more). De Feo had previously directed, alone, that jewel of The Nest. Seeing this Piove now makes me want to connect the dots and note an elective affinity and an artistic/human harmony between the two directors. Who, to put it briefly, have shot the two best Italian horror films of these years. Two horror films that they excel above all in their dramatic side, in being so "precise" in describing human relationships, in the extreme sensitivity that runs through them. We are in Rome, in unspecified times but which could easily be ours. In the underground, in the sewers, there is a substance which, by evaporating, makes people angry, more and more angry. It's Raining is, first of all, a courageous film. Because it narrates the family hells in a dry, direct, very harsh way. The relationship between the father Thomas and the son Enrico kills you, it hurts you, not only because it is masterfully constructed, but because you perceive its "truth". Seeing the film your heart aches not so much for that family (in which the figure of the little girl becomes poignant) but because, or at least this happened to me, you are reminded of all those millions of real families in which those dynamics take place .In which there is no love (or rather, there is something stronger than love that does not allow this to manifest itself), in which you see a father and a son hate each other, in which there are figures that are not there more (the dead mother) and others who are instead defenseless spectators of that lack of love, of that anger. From personal experience, being spectators of hatred and anger between two people you love and who you think should love each other kills you as much as if you were inside that vortex of hatred. Read all

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Emiliano Baglio

The most shocking thing about Piove is that the film will be released with a ban on children under 18. An anachronistic and ridiculous absurdity on the part of a ministerial commission which, evidently living outside the world, has decided to definitively bury the new film by Paolo Strippoli, already author, together with Roberto De Feo, of A classic horror story (http:// www.euroroma.net/10329/ARTE%20E%20SPETTACOLO/a-classic-horror-story.html) To Strippoli, for what little it's worth, goes our total solidarity and indignation towards such a decision. However, this cannot relieve us of the amazement felt in front of such a disaster, especially given the previous good performance. There is no point in beating around the bush, Piove is a total failure and this time the justification of the evidently low budget is not enough, excellent films can be made even with very little money Piove is based on an idea that is not new but which could have had excellent potential if it had been minimally exploited. From the sewers of Rome a fog rises which, once inhaled, triggers hallucinations and brings out the dark part of those who breathe it until transform everyone into bloodthirsty monsters. So off to homicidal madness? Without a doubt, Strippoli throws the idea in the bin and builds the usual unbearable film about a dysfunctional family; father desperate after the death of his wife, rebellious teenage son and youngest daughter confined to a wheelchair. What could have been a good genre film turns into a boring, ridiculous melodrama, shot listlessly, with a painful screenplay and performances that scream revenge There is not a shred of decent idea in Piove. There are truly embarrassing moments, first of all those concerning the young Enrico and which culminate in a sequence that describes his typical day with the background of a horrible song rap that we would have preferred to continue to ignore in which the attempt to combine images and music through editing fails miserably. Everything does Read all

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In recent days, Rome has been the scene of an unusual event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam of unknown origin and composition. No one knows that those who breathe in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what they repress, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family. Since Cristina’s death in an accident a year earlier, the love of her husband Thomas and their son Enrico has given way to a forced cohabitation, while the youngest of the family, Barbara, would only like to see them united again as they were before. The accident could have been avoided, both Thomas and Enrico know it. Instead of taking responsibility and moving on, they stopped talking to each other. Now they are two souls full of rage, trapped in a Rome that resembles them: dark, nervous, on the verge of exploding.