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Genre: Noir / Procedural drama
Direction: Maria Sole Tognazzi. With Paola Cortellesi, Andrea Pennacchi, Antonio Zavatteri, Simone Liberati, Manuela Mandracchia, Francesco Colella. On Sky Cinema Uno and streaming on Now
“At ease in my unhappiness.” Even more melancholy and sulky, Paola Cortellesi’s “Petra” is a candidate to become an iconic character in the new course of Italian crime for women.
With the second season, recently available on Sky Cinema, the series shows signs of maturity and innovation that are decidedly relevant compared to the already good debut two years ago.
Paola Cortellesi and Andrea Pennacchi in the second season of “Petra” (photo by Luisa Carcavale).
Based on the books of the Catalan writer Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, Petra moves its setting from the Barcelona of novels to a Genoa presented under a double face: bright and nocturnal, elegant in its most international areas and deeply disadvantaged in its more complex suburbs.
Inspector Antonio Monte moves alongside Petra (Andrea Pennacchi, now more certain than surprise); both singles, apparently cynical, with a hidden sense of humorthey are able to fascinate and create empathy.
The work on the characters is the strong point of the series, directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi, which in the cases of each episode (four, like four independent films) still seems to have some limits. In the first episode, a murder is investigated in a wealthy family context. One of the most interesting news on the Italian serial scene in recent years.
For fans of female detectives with a complex life and to discover the new locations of the Italian thriller.
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