All rights reserved. Director of photography: Nicolaj Bruel Costume designer: Massimo Cantini Parrini Cannes Film Review: ‘Dogman’ Director Matteo Garrone tells the tale of a cuddly everyman who's drawn into violence.

The empty lots and overgrown beach turn into a metaphysical wasteland in an expressive finale that shows the impossibility of ridding the world of the devil. When they tell him, uproariously, that they left a yapping little dog in the freezer to shut him up, Marcello drives back to rescue the frozen pooch, who gets a lot of audience sympathy. Yet the film has no interest in telling us how he survived.

Sales: Rai Com You wonder how anyone could sustain a business there — but, in fact, there’s a little community, made up mostly of the men who work at the local trattoria and the cash-for-gold pawn shop next to Marcello’s canine parlor, which is called Dogman. The locals are fiercer than any pit bull in the film. Terms of Use |

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(One wishes fervently he hadn't bothered to rescue him.) FACEBOOK

Marcello has gotten out of prison, and looks fine: hale and hearty, and he hasn’t lost so much as a tooth. YOUTUBE. TWITTER She would dictate his every action. by There is no question that Simone is a heartless, unredeemed lout with no feelings for the man who saved his life after killers tried, unsuccessfully, to rid the neighborhood of his violent presence. Forget Rottweilers; the real danger soon arrives in the form of a blustering hulk named Simone (Pesce). When a dealer explodes at Simone for owing him 5,000 euro, Simone has one reaction: He beats him to a pulp. Once again set in the Camorra-ridden hinterlands around Naples, the new film pours the various threads running through the Italian director's work into a boiling cauldron of poverty, ignorance and self-interest. The ceremony carried on despite pressure from the local government, which was barking mad that this year’s gathering was being held on the beach. Marcello finds Simone again and reels him in (a process that involves smashing his motorbike, to make the re-bonding look like something other than the trap it is). 6:26 AM PDT 5/18/2018 Producer Jeremy Thomas accepted the award on behalf of Garrone. This quietly sets the stage for a crazy robbery that Simone proposes to pull off in the gold shop next to Marcello's, ignoring the dogman's pleas that he is friends with Franco, the shopkeeper next door (Adamo Dionisi), and has a reputation to maintain in the neighborhood. To say it's located in a bad part of town is more than understatement. Here’s How to Get a Pair. This architectural nightmare mirrors the souls of the rough, tough men who run pool halls and cash-for-gold stores. In the opening scene, Marcello (Fonte) is cooing soothingly to a snarling killer dog just waiting for a chance to sink its teeth into him.

Production designer: Dimitri Capuani The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. The result is a perfected version of Garrone's The Embalmer, written in the form of his dark fables from Tale of Tales. So when he tells poor Marcello that he wants to poke a hole through the wall of his shop to commit a robbery, and Marcello says no, he won’t do it, then caves in, we’re watching what happens when a timid but good man draws a squirmy line in the sand, only to see that line dissolve. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution. Deborah Young Privacy | Even Fredo could stomp this guy. It’s about how Marcello, after taming all those gnashing barking dogs he has to groom, turns into a big dog himself. Nicolaj Bruel's cinematography describes extreme desolation with a careful palette of limited colors that still manage to be eye-catching. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Garrone is the director of “Gomorrah” (has it really been 10 years since it premiered at Cannes?

To say it's located in a bad part of town is more than understatement. Italy is a culture that pushes macho to the extreme (that’s essentially what the Mafia is), but Marcello (Marcello Fonte), the hero of Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman,” is one of those Italian men who’s so harmless he’s cuddly. ), and that was a new and altogether electrifying kind of Mob movie, about the intricate ways that the underworld has its meathooks in the mainstream of Italian life.

The Italian mafia tail had been an early frontrunner for the prize. (It’s the filmmaker who forgets about her.). It’s the tale of an innocent who absorbs evil and learns how to use it but stays innocent all the same. Divorced, with a daughter of around nine (Alida Baldari Calabria) to whom he’s devoted (they like scuba diving), Marcello looks like someone whose saintly-servile wallflower decency might stand in for all of us. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Dior’s New B27 Sneakers Will Be Here This Week.

We cut to one year later. Human star Marcello Fonte was on hand to celebrate, taking to the stage to thank the crowd in Italian and posing with the prize. © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter They say: Sign this paper that fingers Simone, and you’ll go free; otherwise, you’ll go to jail. The groomer's wide-eyed, humorous face lights up with paternal joy in the presence of his daughter (Alida Baldari Calabria), who helps out with the dogs now and then.

What is it about Simone that fascinates the good man? Rhonda Richford The Dogman shop is a poodle parlor out of hell, tucked into the wastelands around Castel Volturno. Short and stooped, with an oblong head and droopy-lidded big eyes that look out at the world with pleading innocence, he’s like Michael Corleone reincarnated as a depressed puppy. Everyone hangs out, but it’s not all buddy-buddy.

Terms of Use | The title of “Dogman” doesn’t just refer to Marcello’s shop. EMAIL ME. About Our Ads All rights reserved. Director: Matteo Garrone But in a surprise move, the jury of critics proved they could not be collared by expectations and recognized Joy the Chihuahua. The first sign that there might be more to Marcello than we think comes when he sells a packet of cocaine to Simone on the side. Screenwriters: Ugo Chiti, Maurizio Raucci, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso Matteo Garrone’s Dogman took Cannes' canine prize, the Palm Dog, in a beachside ceremony Friday. It simply presents him as a wimp reborn. | Cookie Settings. The first sign that Simone has no code even for a hooligan is when he insists on doing lines in Marcello’s shop, even though Marcello has told him to leave because his daughter is there. Matteo Garrone’s Dogman took Cannes' canine prize, the Palm Dog, in a beachside ceremony Friday. Executive producer: Alessio Lazzareschi “There’s not enough of them really.”, Joy was recognized for her hair-raising performance, where she has a brush with death that Palm Dog founder Toby Rose called “riveting.”. Fields was wrong when he said never work with dogs or children,” he said, noting that he has a beef with the lack of Fido-friendly films. Venue: Cannes Film Festival (Competition). As played by Edoardo Pesce, with a wrestler’s neck and a sociopath’s glint of indifference, Simone is a hulk, a human wrecking ball, a ruined force of nature. One night, while Marcello uneasily goes to play soccer with Franco, the heedless giant knocks a hole in the wall between their shops. Privacy |

It's like 'Gomorrah' meets De Sica, only less convincing than either. © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. The four-writer screenplay is tense, tight and to the point, yet it finds room for a sardonic sense of humor.

Though the winners, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, could not be present, they sent their regards via text message. Critics’ Week entry Diamantino, which had also been a frontrunner, picked up the jury prize for its poodles. The Italian mafia tail had been an early frontrunner for the prize.

Funny and scary at the same time, their duet turns up the tension immediately, while it presents a character worth caring about. It marks a turning point that introduces the film's final, terrible act, which takes place under the eyes of the mute dogs and an unnatural dawn. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. It stands heavily chained in a big metal sink while he tries to shampoo it with a mop. I might have bought what he’s doing in a different film, but the one that Garrone has made strains too hard to have it both ways. Editor: Marco Spoletini Dodgers Win a Triumph for Guggenheim Just as Baseball’s COVID Bubble Bursts, The Best Field Jackets for Military-Inspired Style and Protection From the Cold. Marcello protests — if he’s behind bars, who will take care of his daughter? Still, it's clear that he's playing with fire. Production companies: Archimede, Le Pacte Simone and a pal hustle Marcello into driving them to a residential neighborhood, where they burglarize an apartment. A whim of stubborn pride? Director Matteo Garrone tells the tale of a cuddly everyman who's drawn into violence. For a while, “Dogman” seems like a cousin to “Gomorrah,” or maybe an anecdotal offshoot of it. Garrone, who won the grand jury prize in Cannes in 2012 with his Neapolitan comedy Reality, should be in the running for more kudos with this film, whose unrelenting tension likely will bust through borders for sales company Rai Com. Cast: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Alida Baldari Calabria, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi Or more generally, what is it that attracts men to evil? Marcello is the only one who seems unafraid of approaching him and calms him down, almost professionally, with a few lines of cocaine. | Cookie Settings. In the end, however, he refuses to sign; he protects Simone.

It becomes the fable of a weak man who turns himself into a badass, but it sacrifices emotional reality to achieve that transformation.

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