Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2003 / Pater familias / Italy 2003
Brutal, realist drama exploring the lower depths of a town near Naples
through stories of a group of young anti-heroes.
The lower depths of a town near Naples are bared in all their brutality in Francesco Patierno´s impressive directing debut, Pater Familias. Despite the unrelenting cruelty of the images, the pic shows a delicacy in handling the intertwined stories of its rebellious but doomed band of young anti-heroes. Matteo (Luigi Iacuzio) receives permission to spend a day out of prison. As he makes his way home, flashbacks build the atmosphere of oppression and fatality that led him to jail. The various stories unfold in a fluid mixture of past and present, with a final, more upbeat resolution. In each case, an authoritarian, patriarchal father looms as a malevolent shadow figure. Inspired by a non-fiction book by co-scripter Massimo Cacciapuoti, the stories have a raw credibility even at their most heinous.
Deborah Young
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Francesco Patierno
/ Screenplay Francesco Patierno, Massimo Cacciapuoti based on a book by Cacciapuoti
/ Dir. of Photography Mauro Marchetti
/ Music Angelo Talocci
/ Editor Luca M. Gazzolo
/ Producer Umberto Massa
/ Production Kubla Khan
/ Cast Luigi Iacuzio, Federica Bonvolonta, Francesco Pirozzi, Sergio Solli, Antonella Migliore
/ Contact Intramovies, Kubla Khan
Intramovies
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Kubla Khan
Viale dell´Universita 27, 00185, Rome
Italy
Phone: +39 06 447 028 79
Fax: +39 06 447 032 40
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Francesco Patierno
Film Director
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