Reality (2012)
- sombre
- bleak
- intimate
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.
Our read · Reality (2012) (2012) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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