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Tommaso Di Cola. Not my favorite from the festival, but it s definitely a very stylish film.
Here s the official US trailer (+ poster) for the D Innocenzo Brothers
Bad Tales, from Strand s YouTube:
You can also watch the original festival trailer for the D Innocenzos film
Bad Taleshere, to see a bit more.
Once upon a time… in a small family suburb on the distant outskirts of Rome, Italy, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque facade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.
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The 32-year-old DâInnocenzo brothers, Damiano and Fabio, are not newcomers; they shot a feature called Boys Cry in 2018 and made script contributions to many others, including Matteo Garroneâs Dogman. But this is their breakthrough as writer-directors: Favolacce, translated as Bad Tales, which won the Silver Bear award for screenplay at the Berlin film festival last year.
It is a superbly shot, viscerally acted ensemble drama of group dysfunction among blue-collar families in the Rome suburbs at the tail end of a sweltering summer. The children prepare to go back to school where a sinister science teacher is to have a catastrophic influence. The ingenious premise is that the narrator has discovered a childâs diary with blank pages and continues the journal in fictional form. This film is the result.