(2023, Italia, 127')
Manuel is sixteen years old, and his life revolves around taking care of an elderly father, trying to find moments of leisure. Forced to grapple with realities larger than himself, he will have to get used to playing dirty by the rules of a criminal world he thought only existed in American movies, in a dystopian Rome surrounded by looming fires over the Capital. The director continues to explore themes that have made Romanzo criminale and Suburra the two cult series we all know.
Filmmaker Stefano Sollima found success with his 2008 TV series Romanzo Criminale. His first feature film was ACAB of 2012, nominated to six Donatello’s Davids and winner of two Nastro d’Argento Awards. Also in 2012, Sollima, Francesca Comencini, and Claudio Cupellini directed the first season of Gomorra, an adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s novel. In 2015, his second feature film comes out: Suburra, again a story on organized crime. In 2018, Sollima moves to Hollywood to make Soldado, the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario. In 2021, Sollima directed Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse.
