The Family Friend

Film - 2006
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The Family Friend it's a movie with Giacomo Rizzo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Chiatti Full cast. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Original title L'amico di famiglia, runtime 102 minutes. Genre Drama.
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Review of  Una Poltrona Per Due Una Poltrona Per Due
Sorrentino's third feature film, proceeding among Fellini echoes, dialogues of brisk philosophy and an insistent and intrusive soundtrack of electronic music, once again delves into the theme of solitude. This time the Neapolitan director uses a tragically "vampiresque" figure dedicated to accumulating money - the only thing he can truly possess, but of which he does not enjoy the most basic advantages (he wanders the streets wearing a threadbare coat, eats only white rice, drinks tap water and steals from supermarkets). The only relationship he manages to establish with others is the blackmail one of the usury loan. Normal bonds (friendship, love) are barred to him and for this reason he is an easy prey to the machinations of the beautiful Rosalba and her acolytes. From executioner he becomes victim, a victim however who does not arouse any empathy and in whom no semblance of humanity is ignited. Read all
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Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

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