Il fuggiasco

The movie tells the incredible true story of Massimo Carlotto based on his first novel (Il Fuggiasco). The movie is well directed by Andrea Manni at his first direction. The editing is very good and you do not have time to relax a minute. Daniele Liotti gives an important performance , probably the best one since he is acting. The movie takes place in Padova, Paris , Normandy, Cagliari, Mexico City it doesn't look like an Italian movie. All the actors are well directed and you feel how much they were involved emotionally . Congratulations!!! It was a must to tell this story. I suggest everybody to see the movie.

Ciak

The story itself is captivating, told in an agile, and didactic way, it causes revolt, pity and even a little anguish, imagine that it could happen to any of us, Massimo Carlotto will suffer well and will lose a lot of his life, excellent biographical film, different, useful, engaging...

Making a movie about the biased anti-left action of the police and the courts during the stormy 70's in Italy is very nice, and the general story is interesting. However, unfortunately, this movie is unbelievably cheesy. There are so many bad aesthetic choices by the editors (particularly in the very beginning, but not only then)! Script has some good dialogues, but everything happens too much in a hurry, not developing properly either the events or the characters. Then, despite dramatic life story and serious political background, it is hard to get engaged or moved by the film (ok, in the end you do, but not throughout the movie). When the story moves to "Mexico", everything worsens a lot: a lot of obviously non-Mexican actors and bizarre chroma key (why to pretend to shoot in Mexico City without going there?!). Fortunately, that very B-movie part is a short one.

Massimo Carlotto was 19 when he was walking along the street and heard a woman crying for help. He wanted to help her but found already her breathless corpse. Massimo ran home shocked by that sight. Later he told the story at the police station and was accused himself of a murder he hadn't committed. For 17 years Carlotto couldn't find justice: he had to spend some years in prison and then he became a fugitive feeling helpless before the law and *blind* judges. Massimo escaped to Paris, then to Barcelona and Mexico city. All those years he lived in fear. Finally Carlotto was pardoned by the President.

The story of an innocent man accused of a murder. At one moment his stable life turned into a never-ending nightmare. Sufferings,physical and mental pain, humiliation, ruining of all his hopes and dreams, the loss of his true love, his parents, his country. This story based on real events found a reflection in a movie by Andrea Manni *Il Fuggiasco*( *The Fugitive*).

A hard movie which makes us come to think of the sufferings of innocent people and of the Justice itself. Does it exist? And does one have to fight for it and pay such a high price?

Brilliant performance of Daniele Liotti ( as Massimo Carlotto). Giving 10 points from 10 to *Il Fuggiasco*.

The idea is interesting and intriguing: in a country (Italy) which never actually made the aftermath of political terrorism and the reaction to it, the idea of catching an outstanding case of degenerated/refused justice and making a movie of it was a good starting point. Unluckily, the realization and the acting is so given away, so trivialized, that one could expect little subtitles running, like "Look Jane: now the character is experiencing a sense of freedom!". The image of the family, the fianceé, etc. are so stereotyped and predictable that one really does not know what the movie aims to. Telling us there was a wrong done? I do agree and sympathize with the victim. That does not justify THIS movie. A documentary-movie, maybe, a "J'accuse" production or a White book. Not a movie which shows such a ludicrous self-righteousness in being "artistic". It might be that it's a RAI-cinema production, but the movie could perfectly be chopped in two-three chunks and televised with some good-food-for-the-wholesome-family commercials in between.