Serpenti is the new film by Roberto De Paolis Maino, starring Leonardo Lidi, Alessandro Borghi, Pietro Castellitto, Valeria Golino. The film, the personal and surreal odyssey of a man who kills his wife and, as much as he wants to, can't get arrested, was selected for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in the Venezia Spotlight section.
The story is by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with the director. Tragicomic and Kafkaesque, Serpenti addresses the issue of gender violence, avoiding a facile, rhetorical approach. The police station becomes a microcosm of society, where, over the course of a single day, a man who killed his wife tries in vain to turn himself in. His journey unfolds through a series of encounters with characters who, for a range of reasons, prove incapable of properly assessing his story and the gravity of his crimes, transforming his quest for retribution into an increasingly grotesque and dramatically believable paradox.
Through the register of the grotesque and the paradoxical, Serpenti focuses on individual responsibility and the perspective of a society that too often fails to recognize the weight of violence.
Serpenti was filmed entirely in Rome: the facade of the police station where much of the story takes place is that of the former istituto professionale Sibilla Aleramo (a branch of the Croce-Aleramo high school) on Via Tiburtina 967, in the Rebibbia district. Paolo Marra is forced to go to a hardware store near the shopping area on via Palombini, also in Rebibbia. Blinded by delirium, he crosses the street that hosts a famous mural of giant ants on via di Valleranello, in the southern suburbs of Rome.
Serpenti is the new film by Roberto De Paolis Maino, starring Leonardo Lidi, Alessandro Borghi, Pietro Castellitto, Valeria Golino. The film, the personal and surreal odyssey of a man who kills his wife and, as much as he wants to, can't get arrested, was selected for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in the Venezia Spotlight section.
The story is by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with the director. Tragicomic and Kafkaesque, Serpenti addresses the issue of gender violence, avoiding a facile, rhetorical approach. The police station becomes a microcosm of society, where, over the course of a single day, a man who killed his wife tries in vain to turn himself in. His journey unfolds through a series of encounters with characters who, for a range of reasons, prove incapable of properly assessing his story and the gravity of his crimes, transforming his quest for retribution into an increasingly grotesque and dramatically believable paradox.
Through the register of the grotesque and the paradoxical, Serpenti focuses on individual responsibility and the perspective of a society that too often fails to recognize the weight of violence.
Serpenti was filmed entirely in Rome: the facade of the police station where much of the story takes place is that of the former istituto professionale Sibilla Aleramo (a branch of the Croce-Aleramo high school) on Via Tiburtina 967, in the Rebibbia district. Paolo Marra is forced to go to a hardware store near the shopping area on via Palombini, also in Rebibbia. Blinded by delirium, he crosses the street that hosts a famous mural of giant ants on via di Valleranello, in the southern suburbs of Rome.
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Alessandro Borghi - Serpenti
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Pietro Castellitto - Serpenti
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Alessandro Borghi - Serpenti
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Valeria Golino - Serpenti
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Leonardo Lidi - Serpenti
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Serpenti
Paolo Marra has killed his wife, for no apparent reason. Consumed by guilt, he turns himself in: he wants to pay, to serve his sentence, restore dignity to the woman he killed and to himself. He is faced with distracted police officers, zealous lawyers, fortune tellers, and complicated bureaucratic quibbles, and no one takes him seriously. The man is the victim of a Kafkaesque paradox: as much as he wants to, he can't get arrested. The perfect scapegoat for a grotesque society that ignores those who seek redemption.
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