2018 · comedy · sports
Magical Nights
Directed by Paolo Virzì2h 0m2018
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
Our read: Magical Nights (2018) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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