2023 · drama · coming-of-age
Fireworks
Directed by Giuseppe Fiorello2h 14m2023
The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudicial Sicily of 1982.
Our read: Fireworks (2023) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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