Photograph courtesy La Biennale di
Venezia
Venice 71: Film Festival - Anime Nere (Black Souls) - Francesco
Munzi.
The story of Anime Nere, directed by Francesco Munzi is of a Calabrian criminal family unfolds like a
western set in our own day, where the laws of blood and the vendetta take
precedence over everything. A tale that begins in the Netherlands and passes
through Milan on its way to Calabria, amid the peaks of the Aspromonte, where
everything begins and ends. Anime Nere is the story of three brothers, the sons
of a shepherd, close to the ’Ndrangheta, and of their divided soul. Luigi, the
youngest, is an international drug dealer. Rocco, Milanese by adoption and a
member of the middle class, runs a business funded by his brother’s ill-gotten
gains. Luciano, the oldest, cherishes the pathological illusion of a
preindustrial Calabria, conducting a gloomy and solitary dialogue with the
deads. Leo, his twenty-year-old son, represents the lost generation, without an
identity. All he has inherited from his forebears is hatred. As a result of a
trivial quarrel he carries out an act of intimidation against a bar under the
protection of the rival clan. Anywhere else it would have been no more than a
prank. Not in Calabria. It’s the spark that sets off a blaze. Luciano finds
himself in the same predicament as at the time his father was killed many years
earlier. In a dimension suspended between the archaic and the modern the
characters are drawn into the archetypes of tragedy. Staring; Marco
Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane, Anna Ferruzzo and Barbora
Bobulova.
Above.
Director Francesco Munzi.
Photograph
by Marco Leonardi courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
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