SortAnd lately our cinema has returned to try their kinds, we also have to Gabriele Mainettiauthor of We called him Jeeg Robot And The prohibited city. And Mainetti is one of the producers of Shark teeth (on air Spending on Rai Movie at 9.20 pm), film by Davide Gentile who tries to make up for the vein of adventure films with kids, adopting a Spielbergian spirit, while remaining very Italian.
Shark teeth On Rai Movie, the plot of the film
Summer holiday time: for the youngest, time of freedom and great adventures. Thirteen year old Walter He gave little lost his father, and thus finds herself living with her mother Rita, with whom she does not have a good relationship. To escape a complicated situation for him, he rides his bicycle without brakes. In his wandering aimlessly for the Roman coast, A mysterious villa captures his attention. Entering secretly, find out A large swimming pool, inside which swims a dangerous shark. Fascinated by this creature, he returns to visit him: he is thus spotted by Carlo, a young man bigger than him who soon becomes his friend and takes him under his wing.
The review of Shark teeth
Shark teeth begins with the images of a crowded beach which, with a pinch of cinephiliacan only suggest dark omens. Shortly thereafter, we see Walter darting free, instantly recalling what a few decades ago, putting at the center “Bicycle kids”, between And And The Goonies It was a real genre. By adopting his perspective, the encounter with the mysterious creature injects as much fear as they want to discover more. Compared to the models mentioned, this does not happen together with peers, but with children older than him, in a training novel that also passes through violence.
Virginia Raffaele interprets the mother of the protagonist in “Shark teeth” (Lucky Red)
The film, therefore, as its protagonist, is animated by a desire to feel little explored territories. At the same time, it does not completely detach from the main streets of our cinema through two very popular coordinates. The first is the criminal context of the suburbs, a fixed presence from Gomorrah down, which Walter discovers through Carlo. The brutality to which they witness become the lever with which to reflect on itself and try to understand who it really is, overcoming the childhood innocence that makes everything appear wonderful.
The second is the dramatic side that gives a lot of space to the relationship with the mother and the memory of the deceased fatheruntil it prevails over the adventurous one. Although the interpretations of Virginia Raffaele and Claudio Santamaria convince, their characters are not quite in -depth to be able to touch the right ropes. We therefore feel the need to give thickness to the film, however, to the expense of the entertainment. In the same way, the shark, triggered of the events, soon becomes a simple pretext and a metaphor of immediate understanding, at the expense of the evocative charm and narrative potential.
The cast
If Shark teeth However it works, a lot is due to the successful as a protagonist of little Tiziano Menichellion the debut on the big screen. Next to him, in the role of Walter’s mother, Virginia Raffaele, in a dramatic role very different from the most comic ones she has accustomed us to. In the role of the boy’s father, we find Claudio Santamaria, already the protagonist of They called him Jeeg Robot; Claudio Pesce, in a short appearance, is instead the Corsaro, a criminal boss owner of the villa.