Uscito today in the cinema, Dangerous game It is an unprecedented story with a dark colors of a love triangle directed by Lucio Pellegrini (So Mambo), written with Elisa Fuksas. The film chooses the stylistic features of the psychological thriller with traces of yellow Starting from the golden and vacuous world of contemporary art. An ambitious project not completely successful with Adriano Giannini, Eduardo Scarpetta and Elodie, excellent female interpreter.
Dangerous game, The plot of the film with Elodie
Carlo Paris (Adriano Giannini) is an art critic very quoted as well as a well -known novelist. His latest book, with autobiographical tones, has attracted the attention of American producers who would like to make a television series. The success of the book, however, created tensions with their brother and family members, who have not digested the many personal references and their portraits, not flattering. Carlo is married to Giada (Elodie)one Beautiful contemporary dance dancer And they live in a splendid villa on the sea of Sabaudia.
An apparently perfect lifedivided between worldly events, interviews and dinners with many professionals from the world of Italian art. Still, Carlo is deeply in crisis. Everyone has long been waiting for a new novel but the writer He lives with great frustration an prolonged absence of inspiration. Every day he finds himself in front of a white page without being able to conclude anything.
Also Giada, Despite the promising auditions and proposals received, It seems to no longer be able to find stimuli To dance. During an elegant vernissage at the Maxxi in Rome, Carlo meets Peter Drago (Eduardo Scarpetta), A mysterious and fascinating artist. The two converse in a secret place, one speakeasy which is located on the lower floor of an anomalous shop managed by Pakistani.
The two pass the evening by drinking many alcohol. Peter is a brilliant storyteller: he tells fragments of a love story with an unreliable and enigmatic woman who seems a little true, a little invented. After realizing that you are too drunk to return by the car alone, Peter offers to drive Carlo’s car to Sabaudia, promising him to bring him back the next morning.
Eduardo Scarpetta (Peter) and Adriano Giannini (Carlo) in “dangerous game”. (Luciaiurorio/Visadistribution)
Dangerous gamewho is Peter Drago?
Thus begins, a new friendship. Vivacity e Peter’s bizarre amuses Carlo but do not convince Giada in the leastall too suspicious towards the eccentric artist. The two men spend time together e Peter tells Carlo a news factor happened a few years earlier in Sabaudia. A beautiful girl, Maria, who lived in a villa close to that of Carlonow abandoned, is disappeared into thin air.
History attracts Carlo so much to transform it on the subject For his new novel. The writer thus found energy and new inspiration. Despite Giada’s resistance, Peter invites Sabaudia for a few days. His presence seems to move an unexpected passion and distant emotions in the couple.
The artist, increasingly extravagant and shadycreates and destroys his works, passing confusedly between painting sculpture photography, unable to focus on a single goal. Peter It is not the man who says he is And it entered their lives certainly not by chance.
Dangerous gamethe review
From the first sequences, Dangerous game It presents itself as an anomalous noir – from rain to bruises – compound subtraccia from important references. An act of the Fidelio by Beethoven, a theater system and theoretical concepts very present in thecontemporary artin particular that of Chris Burden, Pretesignano of total art and performance art. There is no shortage of cinematographic hints as Picnic to Hanging Rock by Peter Weir.
In the center There is of this connection A love triangle in which Giada is the female figure both bearer of carnality and beauty, and muse. An messenger that inspires two men but is unable to be of inspiration to itself. Apparently to the antipodes, Peter and Carlo are the different and the same faces of the same medal. The representation of a world where art becomes pure performance at the expense of the depth of content.
Lucio Pellegrini builds the characters putting them in suggestive contrast with environments. Peter’s broken passion diverges with the maniacal order and the clear architectural style of the villa of Sabaudia, theater of events. Although they are so different, they are all crystallized in a present where the vital act of creation is missing – in writing, art and dance – overwhelmed in equal measure in an endless psychological traffic jam.
Elodie is a “dangerous game” dancer. (Luciaiuorio/Visadistribution)
Between lights and shadows
They seek creativity and inspiration by feeding on the Same obsession: not that of talent but the craving to have its own audience. It matters little that the recommendations are used on the stage of fame, stealing the ideas of others or the choice of extreme performance that overwhelms everything and everyone. An ambitious and unusual film for Italian cinema where not everything works perfectly.
Paradoxically, The interesting references crush the originality in the nuce of history. Thus the sequences appear more as tableau vivant without real narrative cohesion. The rarefied and brain atmospheres with a strong aesthetic connotation, including sex scenes, reject the viewer, who cannot get involved. Consequently, the suspense is put on stand by even in the most significant moments.
Adriano Giannini and Elodie. (Luciaiuorio/Visadistribution)
The cast and when the film comes out
The same abstract intellectualism also involves the performance of the valuable cast. Despite the undoubted skill of Adriano Giannini and Eduardo Scarpetta, The two actors present moments out of focusas if their characters were missing the right dose of credibility. The Peter Drago of Scarpetta as a fascinating psychopath is transformed, approaching the final solution, into a hysterical and inconsistent subject that disorientates.
Adriano Giannini is fossilized in poses as impassive spectator in the face of disturbing events up to obtuseness. The cohesive and bright character of the trio is Elodie. His second test as the leading actress, later I eat your heart by Pippo Mezzapesa, convinces for the right identification of artist who expresses himself with the body. Giada is a fragile creature that enhances and annihilates everything around her and is The truest and most lively part of history. Dangerous game He came out at the cinema today March 14, 2025.
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