I buchi neri

Written and directed by Pappi Corsicato, the movie follows Adamo (Vincenzo Peluso), a banana carrier with dyed hair, starting a relationship with Angela (Iaia Forte), a prostitute.

A movie about love and the desolate condition it produces when it is not returned. There is a sense of those first stages in falling in love where the other is idealized, almost a teen approach, it could be said, and also a sense of it coming to an end like a summer love. A problem for someone if instead of cherishing something that ended, but that nonetheless happened, is troubled because it doesn't exist anymore. Like the TV says when Angela is in her room, when a star dies, a black hole is formed, and if you tried to enter the black hole, you would return to a state of absolute purity. Maybe that state of absolute purity is nothing but an illusion when instead of love, what was happening was something else.

I buchi neri has the habit of repeating the same happenings over and over again to portray and be clear about routines that involve its characters. For instance, Adamo, while "working," went to the fields to spy on Angela. This town definitely has no short supply of voyeurs! There are also a number of things happening in the narrative that seem more the product to keep the story going than something needed to weave the story together. In any case, Pappi Corsicato's feature at its core is about desire and the effects it can have on a person when it is mistaken for love.