From Pupi Avati, this is one of those movies that is indeed likely to be considered a future classic.
Shot in monochrome, the film is set in Bologna post-war, where a troublesome youngster with literary aspirations falls in love at first sight with a beautiful nurse in the American army. The following year, in the American mid-west, he finds himself living in a house adjacent to the home of the object of his affections - separated only by a nefarious vegetable garden - where the nurse’s elderly mother lives, a woman devastated by the loss of her daughter whom she hasn’t heard from since the end of the war. Thus begins an incredibly tense investigation led by the young man, placing him in a terrifying situation before we return home to Italy for a wholly unexpected ending.
The film had the honour of closing this year's Venice Film Festival and Prague's MittelCinemaFest:
The nurse, Chiara Caselli, is no stranger to the genre having featured in the wonderful Manetti Bros' The Crypt Monster / Il Mostro Della Cripta (2021) in which some comic book nerds discover a comic that appears to parallel events in real life - add it to your must-see list:
Shot in monochrome, the film is set in Bologna post-war, where a troublesome youngster with literary aspirations falls in love at first sight with a beautiful nurse in the American army. The following year, in the American mid-west, he finds himself living in a house adjacent to the home of the object of his affections - separated only by a nefarious vegetable garden - where the nurse’s elderly mother lives, a woman devastated by the loss of her daughter whom she hasn’t heard from since the end of the war. Thus begins an incredibly tense investigation led by the young man, placing him in a terrifying situation before we return home to Italy for a wholly unexpected ending.
The film had the honour of closing this year's Venice Film Festival and Prague's MittelCinemaFest:
The nurse, Chiara Caselli, is no stranger to the genre having featured in the wonderful Manetti Bros' The Crypt Monster / Il Mostro Della Cripta (2021) in which some comic book nerds discover a comic that appears to parallel events in real life - add it to your must-see list:
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