DOMENICO_SOLDANI

It is about a man, Bomba, who work as gentle nurse helping aged during day, but become a violent arm for the criminal and truce underworld of Rome. The occasion to solve his trouble is a dangerous job: robber a safe containing perilous secret of Russian gangster for Islamic terrorist. The story became complicated, involving hidden Vaticans connection, mystic crisis, depicting "cruelty and weaknesses, dark lights of one metropolitan, decadent, dirty, bad Rome". It is far to perfection, also because of the low budget (less than 100k euros); many character are real life persons, as Bomba himself. But it is interesting, very different from usual noir stereotype. I suggest the vision.

In my opinion this is a typical European first quality movie. And so, I expect controversial evaluation from USA audience. It is about the discovering of a different way of life, from two adult women. Elena is middle-class, graduated in chemistry, a manager in a cosmetics factory in northern Italy. Maria (Valeria Golino) is a lower class sales clerk, with a young daughter, living in the south. So they are very far apart. Both of them have a not completely satisfactory love affair with their men. An accident put them in contact, and, by the way, they discover a quiet needs to grow up a new friendship, with a journey to the mountain. Their reciprocal knowledge not only irradiate benefice to them, but this, thanks to a quiet direction of the movie, permits also to the audience to feel good. Nothing very special take place, other than discovering the limits of our way of life, that doesn't permits real personal interactions.

I love cinema, in the recent past my opinion were that most of the production were similar in construction: Hollywood(but not only) cannot afford any waste of money. A movie must sell on its first week, so a lot of very clever works, well structured, but very few innovation. So very good movie about Africa, and very good about the magicians, and very good about what if.., like try to improve without any risk. Tornatore took the risk, during the first quarter of the movie spectator wonder if for mistake another movie is playing. The plot is very strong, maybe not all the pieces fitted well but the average is very persuading, the actors are at them best, there are no many moments in the montage that leave doubts. And when somebody make a work far away from the average, at the top of the quality, it is a masterpiece?