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The Penitent Italian film (why the title in English?) about the drama of a psychiatrist whose patient committed a massacre and who refuses to testify in the name of professional secrecy.

As if that were not enough, the press distorts his statements (they make him call homosexuality an aberration while he spoke of "adaptation" whatever that means) and his wife is the opposite of supportive. The subject looks interesting unfortunately the director seems to believe the spectators are incapable of understanding a concept if it is not repeated several times. Ironically the spectator is not told all relevant details and one is supposed to side with the protagonist and the director ( Luca Babareschi not exactly an Lgbt friendly person) with their veiled complaints on political correctness. All however hinges on the refusal of the protagonist to hand over the therapy diaries . The movie drags on and on till the unexpected ending reveal.

Really what one can say? Polansky's middle finger at the rich entitled ones spares no disgusting scene and no human and not human excretion . Some scenes are intended to be funny I suppose but revulsion is the dominant reaction to all the uglyness the moral misery and squalor depicted. The intestinale problems of a dog; a planner fraud based on the supposed effects of the Millennium bug; the consequences of and elderly tycoon's orgasm; russians robber barons in the ending of Eltsin's rule; and among all that the wanderings of and innocenti penguin. An hotel director struggling to met the outrageous demands of Rich idiots id the character who'd supposed to hold together the whole stinking mess. Ok Roman you had your fun. We'll try to Remember you only for Chinatown and Rosemary 's baby and forget Te Palace.

The Fire of Sin is a slightly absurd film with a protagonist who the director seems not to have decided whether he is a naive boy who ended up in prison for a fight that ended badly or a consummate criminal with mask and everything. The boy gets seduced by a woman married to a violent husband, who is at least 10 years older than him and spouts one soap opera cliché after another. "Do you think it was fate that brought us together," for heaven's sake! Well he falls for it and you can imagine the ending. Apart from the scenes with the super cool Ray Nicholson, a forgettable film. Only the director knows how he manages to be seduced by a woman who has all the charm of a salted caramel popsicle. To the avalanche of clichés, add the good cop and bad cop couple, the icing on the cake 🙄