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Fabio F. Del Greco, recently released his second film and I highly recommend it. Fans of directors like Nic Roeg, David Cronenberg and David Lynch, especially his Lost Highway, and writers like Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, George Orwell and JG Ballard should find much to enjoy here. An everyman, Giuseppe (Fabio Del Greco), seems to be sleepwalking through life, going through the motions, in a loveless relationship with a girlfriend whose raison d'etre is to, seemingly, be a compliant consumer. He has a boring job, and works with an associate obsessed with illegal immigration, who attempts to interest Giuseppe in joining him at anti-immigration rallies, but Giuseppe seems disinterested, at best. One day, while driving his car, Giuseppe is stopped by a a "vagabond," who hands him a videotape. The VHS shows Giuseppe at a younger age, interspersed with footage of the vagabond. Giuseppe is freaked out and grabs a box of videotapes he made in his youth, which are now also interspersed with images of the vagabond. Meanwhile, there appears to be a conspiracy between the government, the private sector and the church - a triumvirate - to control the more rebellious individuals of society. Was Giuseppe a poet in his past? Did someone steal his poetry and publish it as their own? Did this crush his spirit? Does the conspiracy actually exist or is it the imaginary nightmare of a lunatic gone insane. Highly recommend!

It's a current and captivating film. A thanks to all actors good direct. If u looking for a new à interesting movie you have to watch it.

An unexpected indie gem! With an excellent premise this film has great central performances and thought provoking themes all of which are executed very well. Excited to see what these Filmmakers do next.

Came across this and it's a very interesting film. Definitely Orwell inspired and at times, it had the feel of Time Crimes to it. Provocative imagery and nice build in tension.

Fabio Del Greco slips into the bloodstream with the sublime "Employee's Mystery," a compelling and in many ways visionary film whose architecture could well have been sketched by JG Ballard, and whose subcutaneous journey to the cerebral cortex evokes the intoxicating on-screen trippiness of an Eraserhead-era David Lynch.

Giuseppe -- played with great aplomb by Del Greco himself -- possesses the somnambulist mentality all too often forced on the human psyche by the utter soullessness of an uninspired career. He has a girlfriend, but the relationship offers no more semblance of love than his job can arouse. While navigating his seemingly pedestrian existence, his car is stopped by a never-before-seen drifter, who passes Giuseppe a video cassette. The tape reveals inexplicable images of a youthful Giuseppe; he cannot account for them. Verily, Giuseppe's circuit breakers begin to trip, and his head is further blown off when he's subjected to other videos from his apparent youth, which again feature the mysterious drifter at and around the fringes.

This meticulously designed Italian language film is internally-focused on the existential. It shrewdly uses sparse dialogue counterpointed against dialed-up atmospheric room sounds to elevate the suspense to dramatic heights. The intensity slowly reveals itself, then deliberately escalates throughout, surfacing the possibilities of a previous identity for Giuseppe -- all while alternately suggesting a man in short supply of sanity. "Employee's Mystery" takes a terrific, mind-bending concept and executes it with an expert understanding of our sensory triggers and our need for identity, and it does it with a ferocious uniqueness that the big screen is rarely treated to.

Really surprised with the writing and acting of this film. Well done

Holy cow did I like this film! What a little gem! It just kept getting better and better. The cinematography was incredible. I love how black & white was used. I'm a sucker for black and white and they were so smart in this film how it was displayed. The writer/director (Fabio del Greco) did a great job allowing the story to be told without a lot of dialogue. The acting was spot on!! There was so much going on below the surface without the actor having to say a word! That is true acting in my book! A big thumbs up from me on this one!

This is a solid movie about a man who has it all, wife,house,job And everything else but someone has it out for him and begins to spy on him and tries to control his life. He doesn't buy into it and will fight to the end. Check out this suspense drama for yourself

Employee's Mystery is definitely not mainstream, and will appeal to you when you are a fan of international cinema and you are on the lookout for something different. It's dystopian, and contemporary, a film about total control, raising the question, do we still have some control ourselves? I really like the cinematography as well, which uses black and white intercut with colour. Great film :)