Well Italians (well Romans) seem to have to go clubbing at a much higher age than In Brighton. This film.. Tree of Life meets Human Traffic, but with a 65 year old protagonist, a tremendously expressive and interesting portrayal of writer turned playboy Jep Gambardella by actor Toni Sevillo - he's got such a great face, aged but young, deeply jowled and wrinkled but shapely. A lot of the women characters are old too - they too have wrinkles and jowls, they're not perfect, but they are still partying and snorting lines of coke off the kitchen table in front of the disapproving, but tolerant eye of Jep' housekeeper.
The party scenes are a continual visual and aural cinematic experience that gets you bouncing in your seat to them dancey rhythms, but a lots and lots of changes of pace, of perfect witty cameos of the characters and situations that surround him, great satire ) and surreal scenes that suddenly envelop the screen seamlessly and effortlessly. Always interesting - this is a long film, a long winding non-narrative that has to change gear abruptly at times, as we see into
Wants to have its cake and eat it with the Catholic church - the cardinal and future pope hopeful is always describing his recipes, the Mother Teresa figure is so old and decrepid, stage managed in all sorts of pictures and events on her trip to Rome, but she also has some of the best lines
"You cannot speak poverty. You have to live it".
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