Film No. 76 (2019) Aug. 20th. 6:40 PM PALACE CINEMAS Northbridge.
"I know he's a friend of yours. Whatever you do, don't trust a word he says" (Marcello's friend, the jeweller, warns him that his friendship with Simoncino could cause him harm).
Director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) loves this dour southern Italian coastal strip as a backdrop to his often "based on fact" tales of human fragility. Dogman tells the tale of a crime which reviled Italians in the 80's but as Garrone says, this film only used the story as its starting point. Marcello Fonte plays Marcello, a dog groomer and petty criminal living his life out of a dirty, damp shop in a stark unkempt town on the coast of Campania. A human wrecking ball, Simoncino, rules over the town but more particularly Marcello. We invest emotionally with Marcello in the hope he'll wrestle back his independence, but given his small stature and gentle nature, his challenge may be insurmountable. Fonte won the ultimate individual gong at Cannes for this role. Garrone is a filmmaker with an innate talent for bringing unique regional Italian stories to the world through the eyes of vulnerable characters. Dogman is raw, bold and brilliant. 11GUMS.
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