“Villetta with guests” broadcast on Rai 3: plot and cast of the film

uA beautiful middle-class family and a wealthy small town in northern Italy divided in half: by day public virtues, by night private vices, pettiness and violence. The characters, so reassuring under the sun, show their darker side at night. Here is the theme of House with gueststhe movie of Ivan De Matteo with Marco Giallini broadcast tonight on Rai 3 at 21.20.

House with guests: the plot

We are in the busy northeast. George (Marco Giallini) manages the winery of his wife’s family Beloved (Michelle Cescon), in which the old mother-in-law still puts her beak, Miranda (Erika Blanc). At the lady’s service, there is Sonja (Cristina Flutur), his son Adrian (Ioan Tiberiu Dobrica), that he has a liking for Bea (Monica Billiani), George’s eldest daughter.

Prominent personalities of the town are the cynical Dr De Santis (Bebo Crooked), The Commissioner Ponti (Massimiliano Gallo) And Don Carlo (Vinicio Marchioni). In this suffocating and bigoted reality, the foreigner is not seen very well (by the hairdresser black women are called “brownish” and the young Romanian “Ceausescu”).

The story takes place in twenty-four hours “of extraordinary madness”. During the day the ladies and their husbands of this wealthy town in the North (part of the film is shot in Bassano del Grappa) are quiet at the coffee tables, chatting and gossiping. All is peaceful until an “accident” occurs, a pistol shot at point blank range. In the search for a culprit, when the sun goes down, the action moves to the cottage and the comedy slips into noir.

The deadly sins

In this house where the protagonists are locked up, everyone will give vent to their dark side. The seven respectable characters will show their true face, embodying the seven deadly sins. Bebo Storti is gluttony, Michela Cescon is sloth, the priest Vinicio Marchioni lust. Envy and anger are common traits of multiple characters. And there is no lack of capital sins today.

«Today everyone knows everything and everyone breaks ic…..i», explained Marco Giallini at the press conference. “It’s a capital vice that I invented.” While Bebo Storti added: «The real capital vice is ignorance, stupidity, functional illiteracy, summarizing everything in a “nigga di m…a’ and it all ends there”·

House with guests: inspired by a news story

The film is freely inspired by a crime story that took place in Ladispoli. “I found out about it Who has seen, and I noticed the absurdity of the fact that the gun had been given by the carabiniere», explained the director. “A fact that we had already put into the film in an attempt to tell the absurdity in a story of extraordinary madness”.

We are good, honest, sincere, charitable. One shot and everything changes: all accomplices, no innocents. The sentences of the trailer make the sense of this film very well, which without being violent hits hard. Legitimate defense, the private citizen “who takes justice into his own hands” is one of the topics addressed by House with guests. Topics that are treated lucidly, albeit in a somewhat predictable and stereotyped way, but which bases its strength on the characters made very credible by a cast of level actors.

The cast: among the best actors of the moment

The excellent protagonist leads the cast Marco Giallinijust appeared in the guise of Rocco Schiavonenow in its fifth season for Rai), Michelle Cescon (theater actress who happily landed in the cinema, very good in the part of his wife). Also worth noting Cristina Flutur, Romanian actress who with the film Over the hills won the best performance award at Cannes 2012, Erika Blanc, who plays the old and hateful mistress, Maximilian Gallo (now a regular feature of many Italian dramas, seen last fall in Vincenzo Malinconico unsuccessful lawyertaken from the books), Vinicio Marchioniwho manages to immerse himself very well in the role of the parish priest, the Romanian actor Ioan Tiberiu Dobrica and the excellent Bebo Storti, the slimy and cynical doctor.

And there is no shortage of forest animals

In some scenes of the film, images of nature also appear. The forest with the animals that inhabit it: squirrels, roe deer, hedgehogs, rabbits, deer and even a wolf, to remind us that we too follow the laws of nature, where the strongest wins and fear rules.

“Nature has a double aspect like the human being,” he explained Valentina Ferlan, who wrote the film together with De Matteo. «You can stand in front of a landscape and feel the tranquillity, the beauty, but suddenly nature can be scary, become cruel. And in nature there is also strength, in the end the strongest chooses what is best for him to do. So sometimes even man is transformed, sometimes in a heroic way, sometimes in a cruel way».

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