The Family Friend
- sombre
- measured
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, measured, measured drama / italian, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
Our read · The Family Friend (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · italian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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