Io non ho paura (2003)
(I'm Not Scared)
Country: IT/SP/GB
Technical: col/scope 108m
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva
Synopsis:
Children in Southern Italy play near an abandoned farm and one of them discovers a hole in which a young boy is kept chained, kidnapped, it turns out, by a criminal ring in which his own father is involved.
Review:
Beautifully filmed in the Tornatore manner, this uncanny story has quite a challenge on its hands once the mystery surrounding the identity of the boy (corpse? ghost? enfant sauvage?) is unravelled: can it hold our attention quite as much? It achieves some striking display with its travelling shots over undulating corn fields and its rustic village straight out of some spaghetti western, and the scenes of home life are well caught, but the lyrical, open-ended tableau chosen for its conclusion is somehow unsatisfying.
(I'm Not Scared)
Country: IT/SP/GB
Technical: col/scope 108m
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva
Synopsis:
Children in Southern Italy play near an abandoned farm and one of them discovers a hole in which a young boy is kept chained, kidnapped, it turns out, by a criminal ring in which his own father is involved.
Review:
Beautifully filmed in the Tornatore manner, this uncanny story has quite a challenge on its hands once the mystery surrounding the identity of the boy (corpse? ghost? enfant sauvage?) is unravelled: can it hold our attention quite as much? It achieves some striking display with its travelling shots over undulating corn fields and its rustic village straight out of some spaghetti western, and the scenes of home life are well caught, but the lyrical, open-ended tableau chosen for its conclusion is somehow unsatisfying.
(I'm Not Scared)
Country: IT/SP/GB
Technical: col/scope 108m
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Cast: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva
Synopsis:
Children in Southern Italy play near an abandoned farm and one of them discovers a hole in which a young boy is kept chained, kidnapped, it turns out, by a criminal ring in which his own father is involved.
Review:
Beautifully filmed in the Tornatore manner, this uncanny story has quite a challenge on its hands once the mystery surrounding the identity of the boy (corpse? ghost? enfant sauvage?) is unravelled: can it hold our attention quite as much? It achieves some striking display with its travelling shots over undulating corn fields and its rustic village straight out of some spaghetti western, and the scenes of home life are well caught, but the lyrical, open-ended tableau chosen for its conclusion is somehow unsatisfying.