Bad Tales

It was a good Concept and a good cast. The work out of the Concept was fine but with room for improvement. The ending is quite shocking and surprising in a way. But I think they could have done more intensive work with showing the dynamic between the suburbian neighbours. At least I hoped for it. The direction is good, there are many intersting Scenes. The acting of especially the Kids who are on the Center stage of that film is fantastic and already that is enough to make it worthwhile to watch this film. The Soundtrack and look is great. The screenplay is probably the weakest part. But generally its still a good film, with many intersting characters (all of them Kind of unlikeable - especially the adult ones). Good european Cinema.

Is an expression ive heard , but flat italian is so insanely impossible, due to the alps dividing the blood and temper of culture, but believe it or not, this was a c-flat inemotional horizontal coaster ive ridden for a few years.

Its a couple of family sagas thats the main subject, loads of bad and misunderstood parenting, children that react on reflexes rather than sane decisions, where the incestous sides are very close, and the love and hate aspect rigid but crucial.

But its boringly plotted and written the child cast do above, the adult cast a bit below average, there are long on distance shoots that doent at all switch on one imagination, and if you have that, then skip it, itll ruin your ability. Its saggy and slow, there are twists in the bodybag but they seem rather unrealistic and may happen 1/100000000 timesm a year.

No this was a messy wannabe hunky stroll at the hypercultural mainstream of socialrealism to shock us all, but it wont. I believe youll have to be italian in soul and spirits to contain something outta this. The grumpy old man gives 4 outta 10 stars, not recommended.

It's a good movie. Plot is well worked but they didn't really make the best of it. Dialogues are solid. All together it's a good movie but not as good as it could've been.

Seen at Berlinale 2020, it is a film that looks at the relationships between parents and children. There is a lot going on in this little Italian suburb, but one thing is for sure, the parents make much more noise than the children. It is a story about growing up or never managing to do so. Worth seeing.

"Favolacce" is undoubtably a good movie, thanks to the inspired screenplay, the anxious score, the solid acting and the frustrating direction. And I say frustrating because the D'Innocenzo's brothers intentionally chose the camera angles that were the less adapt to the scenes in order to provoke a sense of discomfort in the viewer. And this discomfort is what the movie leaves after the credits, a general bitterness for what happened in it. The complaint I have, that is the reason why I didn't love it, is the setting. The ultra degraded suburb filled with pessimistic, poor and angry people similar to the one represented in "Dogman" is excessive and distant from the actual reality. And I'm not saying there aren't difficult situations but here is a bit too extreme and I felt a certain detachment from the characters because they really felt fictional to me (maybe the only one that I perceived as plausible is the one played by Elio Germano). And probably it actually was the intention of the filmmakers in order to tell some tales, as the title suggests, but I would have liked it more if the context was more real and then I think that what happens in the movie would have hit me a lot harder than it did. In conclusion "Favolacce" is good, surely a fine watch, but the level of appreciation you will feel is correlated to how much you will buy its setting and its characters.