The Place
Director:
Paolo GenoveseCámara:
Fabrizio LucciMúsica:
Maurizio FilardoReparto:
Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Alessandro Borghi, Silvio Muccino, Alba Rohrwacher, Vittoria Puccini, Sabrina Ferilli, Silvia D'Amico, Rocco Papaleo (más)Sinopsis(1)
En el bar “The Place” hay un hombre misterioso sentado cada día en la misma mesa. Muchas personas se acercan a hablar con él, todos ellos con un deseo que satisfacer: ser más bella, pasar una noche con una estrella del porno, recuperar la vista o encontrar a Dios, entre otros. El hombre toma nota de las peticiones y les da indicaciones sobre como satisfacer cada deseo. Estipula con cada visitante un contrato con lo que hay que pagar a cambio: robar una buena suma de dinero, poner una bomba o incluso matar. Si se lleva a cabo el deber asignado, el éxito está garantizado. ¿Estarán preparados para lleva a cabo el cometido? (Cameo)
(más)Reseñas (3)
Paolo Genovese knocked me out a year ago with the intelligent conversational piece Perfect Strangers and this year he's done it again and I'm absolutely blown away by the genius of a director who, once again, using just one location and a few actors, can make a film that is smart, suspenseful, twisted, brilliantly acted and shocking all at the same time. This time the film is set in a restaurant where a mysterious man sits with a book willing to grant people wishes, but every wish has a price and something mostly nefarious needs to be done. It shows nicely that human desire can cause things that one wouldn't normally do. Some of the quests are very gritty and I liked that all the people are interconnected and intertwined. The cast is the same as in Perfect Strangers, which I also take as a big advantage, and even though the quests are all talk it still has drive and energy. The final twist is again left a bit up to the viewer's imagination, not difficult to unravel. Great fun and I even worked up a sweat. I'm curious to see what he comes up with next. 90%
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The interplay of the different characters, the dialogue, and the often surprising twists are almost irresistible and make the viewer hang on and look forward to the denouement. What is missing, however, is a proper conclusion and resolution. Otherwise, I think I would have gone wild and quite possibly considered this film a treasure. When I was looking for an analysis of the ending, I came across an observation from a viewer somewhere. He felt that people leaving the theater after the movie ended felt cheated. I probably wouldn't call it that serious, but it is true that I was expecting more after such a promising start. A weaker 4 stars.
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I can't remember the last time I had such a good time with an intimate and minimalist film like this one. Paolo Genovese's style is obviously right up my alley, and although Perfect Strangers was a completely different film, the character analysis was perfect in both cases. There were certainly no goody-goodies here (thankfully). Each character fully revealed their inner asshole or at least struggled with this fact. The film lacked action scenes, but some of the dialogue made me feel very uneasy.
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