L'amico di famiglia [videorecording] = Paolo Sorrentino

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Paolo Sorrentino

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Italian Summary language: English Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Publication details: Italy Fandango Indigo Film Medusa Film 2006Description: 1 videodisc (ca 102 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inUniform titles:

The Family Friend

LOC classification:

PN1997 .A653 2006

Summary: From Case Cover: Paolo Sorrentino's effortless stylish film centres on Geremia di Geremei, a sleazy and misanthropic small-time loan shark who lives In a dingy apartment with his invalid mother. When a cash-strapped couple approach him for a loan to pay for the wedding of their daughter Rosalba, Geremia finds himself helplessly obsessed by the bride-to-be's stunning beauty and takes full advantage of his self-proclaimed position as 'a friend of the family' to get as close to her as possible. But in the icily disdainful Rosalba, he may finally have met his match... Giacomo Rizzo gives a brilliant performance as the loathsome money lender in this highly original, visually dazzling and blackly comic suspense-filled drama.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services	PN1997 .A653 2006	Available		000463

Special Features Include: Interview with Paolo Sorrentino, Making Of Documentary, 3x behind the scenes featurettes, Deleted and Alternate Scenes, 2x theatrical trailers, filmographies, stills gallery

From Case Cover:

Paolo Sorrentino's effortless stylish film centres on Geremia di Geremei, a sleazy and misanthropic small-time loan shark who lives In a dingy apartment with his invalid mother. When a cash-strapped couple approach him for a loan to pay for the wedding of their daughter Rosalba, Geremia finds himself helplessly obsessed by the bride-to-be's stunning beauty and takes full advantage of his self-proclaimed position as 'a friend of the family' to get as close to her as possible. But in the icily disdainful Rosalba, he may finally have met his match...
Giacomo Rizzo gives a brilliant performance as the loathsome money lender in this highly original, visually dazzling and blackly comic suspense-filled drama.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 5.1; surround; NTSC; Region 2; 16:9 widescreen.

Italian audio. Optional English subtitles.

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