Saturday, June 26, 2021

Bad Tales (Favolacce)


American film buffs who criticize the movie as "disorganized" and "illogical" simply don't understand cinematic art. It is superbly organized to imitate the boredom of low-to-middle class suburbia populated by the Italian red necks as the murderous swamp. Its immutable logic leads to attempts at murder and, finally, collective suicide. 

The ensemble--mostly consisting of kids--plays superbly. Not a single mediocre acting job, and Ileana d'Ambri in a role of mildly retarded soup kitcheness, and Elio Germano in a role of a red neck factory supervisor--stupid, brutish--but loving and caring husband and father are shining. Ileana d'Ambri even may in future substitute Anna Magnani as a neorealist heroine for the XXI century. 

This is also stumbling American critical multiverse--the absence of obvious heroes and villains--just the people with their big anxieties and small victories. 

The Italian cinema is back after a long hiatus following murder of Pasolini, slow journey of Michelangelo Antonioni into the night, and the death of Fellini! 

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