Angelo is an orphan who grew up with a nomad woman. He reacts to his pain over the death of his best friend for overdose, thanks to the encounter with Serena. She survives being a prostitute, but she has not lost hope. Angelo moves along an axis of characters in a desolate and poetic day without end.
Cinematography
Bleach-bypassed 16mm that turns Italy into gray purgatory
Direction
Manuli's single-day structure feels like breathing toxic air
Acting
Boberg's hopeful weariness anchors the despair
Director
Davide Manuli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Manuli shot this in nine days on expired 16mm stock he found in a Milan lab, giving the film its ghostly, washed-out texture.
Part of Italy's late-'90s 'cinema di confine' movement—films about marginalized lives shot on the literal margins of cities with non-professional actors.
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