THE PIONEERS
Type: youth-activist comedy
Director: Luca Scivoletto. With Mattia Bonaventura, Francesco Cilia, Danilo Di Vita, Matilde Sofia Fazio, Peppino Mazzotta, Lorenza Indovina
The young protagonists of the film “The Pioneers”: from left, Danilo Di Vita, Francesco Cilia, Matilde Sofia Fazio, Mattia Bonaventura
Not everyone can count on Enrico Berlinguer’s personal advice to get out of trouble without betraying their communist ideals. But when the beloved secretary of the PCI transforms himself from a “guardian angel” into a fearsome Superego, then things get very complicated. This is what happens to the son of a tetragonal Sicilian section secretary who in the summer of 1990, to avoid accompanying his father around the sections to discuss the change of name of the party, runs away from home.
The idea is to live camping in the woods, but the meeting with the charming daughter of an American soldier, also on the run, complicates things: Can you fall in love with an exponent of US imperialism? What will Berlinguer say?
Luca Scivoletto’s first work, it is an amusing comedy about the contradictions of politics and life, with a young nerdy protagonist who has been forbidden – for ideological coherence – to see Rambo or play Nintendo.
The approach is playful and nice, but the theme has its own raison d’être and the political bewilderment, which becomes existential unease and ends up softening even Berlinguer’s ghost, makes you smile but also makes you think.
For those who want to remember a summer of our life.
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