THETO JOY
Type: dramatic ✦✦✦
Direction: Nicolangelo Gelormini. With Valeria Golino, Saul Nanni, Jasmine Trinca, Francesco Colella
A mature French teacher who still lives with her parents and, like a child, takes care of her dolls. A charming young student who supplements himself with gay orgies and prostitutes.
Starting from a real news story (Gelormini has a first film behind him, Fortuneinspired by the story of a 6-year-old girl abused and killed in Caivano) and by the play by Giuliano Scarpinato and Gioia Salvatori, If it doesn’t dirty my floor, the fatal clash between the search for an idyllic love and a destructive impulse.
Valeria Golino and Saul Nanni in “La Gioia”. (photo @ Francesca Ardau)
The film stands on the shoulders of seasoned actresses, the phenomenal Valeria Golinobundled up and nosey, very good Jasmine Trinca in the role of the boy’s mother, cynical and cannibalistic.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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