Film No. 72 (2014) October 10th. 8:45 PM LUNA SX Fremantle.
I Can Quit When Ever I Want (Smetto quango vogilo) [Italian]
On reading the premise to this Italian film you might be lulled into believing that the creators had condensed the six seasons of the award winning US series Breaking Bad into a movie. Not so, and thankfully it has a style and delivery of its own.
Pietre Zinni (Edoardo Leo) is a science lecturer at his local university and like so many of his academic kind is employed on yearly contracts. We meet Pietre on the termination and non renewal of his latest contract. He can't tell his partner Giulia, the beautiful Valeria Solarino so he lies but needs to supplement his income in a hurry.
Director Sydney Sibilla encourages Jacques Tati like performances as Pietre forms a band of ex lecturer colleagues, all with specific skills, to produce synthetic tablets for the lucrative recreational drug scene. There are some quite disturbing themes here but the characters are all so likable, naive, self-effacing and generally bumbling that the theme becomes a sidelight.
Made as a regional comedy this small film is the reason festivals at home are such a delight. Leo is excellent as the "key bumbler" and reminds us that the French and Italian comedies outdo the bigger budget western efforts regularly because their central characters are funny without resorting to vulgarity or star power. 8GUMS
On reading the premise to this Italian film you might be lulled into believing that the creators had condensed the six seasons of the award winning US series Breaking Bad into a movie. Not so, and thankfully it has a style and delivery of its own.
Pietre Zinni (Edoardo Leo) is a science lecturer at his local university and like so many of his academic kind is employed on yearly contracts. We meet Pietre on the termination and non renewal of his latest contract. He can't tell his partner Giulia, the beautiful Valeria Solarino so he lies but needs to supplement his income in a hurry.
Director Sydney Sibilla encourages Jacques Tati like performances as Pietre forms a band of ex lecturer colleagues, all with specific skills, to produce synthetic tablets for the lucrative recreational drug scene. There are some quite disturbing themes here but the characters are all so likable, naive, self-effacing and generally bumbling that the theme becomes a sidelight.
Made as a regional comedy this small film is the reason festivals at home are such a delight. Leo is excellent as the "key bumbler" and reminds us that the French and Italian comedies outdo the bigger budget western efforts regularly because their central characters are funny without resorting to vulgarity or star power. 8GUMS
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