No. 72 (2023) LIKE SHEEP AMONG WOLVES (COME PERCORE IN MEZZO AI LUPI) Palace Italian FF. Oct. 9th.

 

Film No. 72  (2023)  October 9th.  3:50 PM  LUNA LEEDERVILLE,  Cine 1, Leederville.

 

"You were never around to look after him. Get out!" (Heartbreakingly Vera is ostracized by her father at the worst of times in her life).

OFFICIAL SELECTION: (Lyda Patitucci): Best Film; International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2023).

 

Good action, feature, crime dramas, have been hard to come in recent years. Being told in a series via TV streaming tends to be the home of this genre, recently.

 Well, if you are missing a big screen story telling experience of this nature, then seek out, LIKE SHEEP AMONG WOLVES. Isabella Rogonese's Vera is a character you won't forget easily.

First feature director Lyda Patitucci could hardly have made a more audacious debut. The story, told through the eyes of Vera, an undercover cop, unfolds with an edginess reminiscent of a Scandi, noir tale.  Vera is in every scene. For good reason. She's doing a job she is addicted to. But she knows there is a limit to her resilience. The film tells the story of her last weeks in the job. Enter her family; the family she stepped away from years ago. Her loyalty, we sense is unquestioned, but when her brother, a young father, appears, just when he shouldn't, she regrets not leaving the service earlier.

Like Sheep Among Wolves is easy to recommend. It's full of all the tropes that make crime dramas addictive entertainment. Vera is a hero, looking to make changes in her life. Will she be able to make those changes on her terms? For the violence and sadness she experiences, is the ending, the beginning of the phase in her life which will test her ability to really make a difference? Go find out.  10GUMS.