2015 · drama · crime
Don't Be Bad
Directed by Claudio Caligari1h 42m2015
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Our read: Don't Be Bad (2015) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
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