Already in one of the inledningsscenerna, during a korpmatch in football, you find it a bit jerky in the tunne and kantige Marcello. A little odd, a little off, but fairly accepted in the gang.
In the film’s very first scene, he takes on a super-aggressive fighting dog as he patiently, lovingly, and soon also successfully managed to wash, despite the constant menacing outcomes.
He runs a small hundrörelse, have a crack, involves a little hundvård, cut nails, everyday. And he loves their dogs deeply and sincerely – he loves his 10-year-old daughter most of all. Together with her he shares his life’s other great interest, deep sea diving, tubes, diving suits.
In one of the film’s finest scenes sitting father and daughter on a boat home after a day out on the sea, in the sea. They sit in silence, close to each other, a long time, and no words are necessary to explain the proximity and love.
The Danish photographer Nicolai Brüel has done an outstanding job, he catches the broken individuals and run-down blocks with the same intrusive purity of style. A sparse script and an equally careful regi gives him the extra space he needs to give life to the scenery. It was a long time ago I saw a photographer take the original and significant space Brüel do. Very beautiful and very threatening, at the same time.
in some kind of half-baked, ramshackle suburb of Rome, where the whole – and halvkriminella moves in any kind of sometimes seemingly motionless skuggvärld. Marcello is also a part of the same dark back, at the side of her hundrörelse dealar he’s a little cocaine to the next in the neighbourhood.
Marcello Fonte is downright brilliant as the ”Dogman”. Photo: Nonstop
We understand very soon that he longs to be a part of the larger community, be a friend, be of little significance. Unfortunately, the exploited, he not rarely, and usually of the most feared and brutal ruffian, Simoncino.
the Neighbourhood’s other småkriminella circuits are so tired of Simoncino that at one point discussing a contract on his death – Marcello will soon have to take the worst hit when Simoncino goes over all borders.
Marcello Fonte in the leading role, straight through the consistent and genial, he carries their burdens and their cross, with the closest to the unlikely credibility.
Marcello lives in fear of Simoncino, you dare never say stop and no thanks, at the same time as he, strangely enough, also drawn to him as the best friend he always seems to have been missing. The disaster allows, of course, not to wait.
admittedly, slightly disappointed, both intellectually and emotionally, but it developed at the same time, firmly against a open tragedy with the closest to the mythical dimensions measured – it’s as if Marcello already from the beginning been sentenced to her doom, simply because of his goodness.
”Gomorrah”director Matteo Garrone moves safely in a closest to the classic Italian neorealistisk tradition, without a single time feels imitated or constructed. It is very solid, very beautiful, a lot of the movie for the money.
Marcello Fonte in the leading role, straight through the consistent and genial, he carries their burdens and their cross, with the closest to the unlikely credibility, a superb piece of acting – he was also rewarded with the award for best actor in Cannes last year. It is straight out of the brilliant and of that kind you as a spectator never lets go. Ever.
See more. Three other Italian films from the later years that go to stream/rent in Sweden: ”What do you hide for me?” (2016), ”A ciambra” (2017), ”Happy as Lazzaro” (2018).
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