TEVERYTHING ASKS FOR SALVATION
Genre: drama, comedy
Director: Francesco Bruni. With Federico Cesari, Filippo Nigro, Bianca Nappi, Ricky Memphis, Andrea Pennacchi, Vincenzo Crea, Carolina Crescentini, Fotinì Peluso, Vincenzo Nemolato. On Netflix
What does it mean to wake up in a psychiatric center after a TSO and have to stay there for a week? This is what happens to Daniele, a young Roman, after a violent outburst at the end of an evening in clubs and discos.
Freely inspired by the homonymous novel by Daniele Mencarelli, Everything asks for salvation is an Italian series that tries to address a theme that is still too often considered taboo: that of mental illness.
A scene from the film “Everything Asks for Salvation”. From left, Vincenzo Crea (Gianluca), Ricky Memphis (Pino), Vincenzo Nemolato (Madonnina), Federico Cesari as Daniele (photo Andrea Miconi/Netflix © 2022).
Daniel’s Nightmare (played by Federico Cesari, already a boy ne The Cesaroni and then teenager in Skam) it materializes by dragging an ordinary boy into contact with a harsh reality that he never would have imagined experiencing.
In seven episodes, each for each day of the week that the protagonist will have to spend in the clinic, the series is a relentless ordeal that becomes self-discovery, without renouncing the irony that becomes a pleasant and precious travel companion; Daniele finds himself confronted with the “mad” and with the staff of the facility (doctors, nurses, assistants), two worlds that touch until they become confused.
Everything asks for salvation it is an interesting further element in that tale of adolescence which is by now the distinctive feature of the platforms, in which the flaw is the abuse of the Romanesque inflection.
For those who love stories of suffering and redemption that open glimpses of our fragility.
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