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Uploaded by on Mar 10, 2010

Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek. Italy. 2010. 113mins.

After struggling with his last three films, Italo-Turkish director Ferzan Ozpetek is back on form with the breezy but passionate Loose Cannons, a likeable and commercially viable coming-out comedy set in Italys Deep South. With its themes of family secrets, oddball character parts, bittersweet tone and sunny outlook, this is the easily the most Almodovar-esque of all Ozpeteks films.

[This film suggests that Ferzan Ozpetek is moving towards a contemporary revival of the commedia allitaliana genre, which can only be good for him and for audiences]

Italian to its core, the film will work especially on home ground, where it is set for release on March 12 through 01 Distribuzione. It may be old hat in Hollywood, but Ozpetek proves that in other territories there is still plenty of mileage in the coming out story, not least because provincial attitudes lag well behind the urban norms. Unfortunately, however, this could mean that the mainly metropolitan audience for foreign language fare might view this as a sweet but rather dated curio thats a little too broad to be taken seriously.

Set in Lecce, a sandstone city in the heel of the Italian boot, the film focuses on the extended Cantone family, who make pasta on an industrial scale. Within three minutes, Ozpeteks restless camera is circling a table of happy Italians eating their meal in the courtyard of a big old Pugliese house: youngest son Tommaso (Italys current favourite romantic lead Riccardo Scamarcio) is just back from his studies in Rome, while serious elder brother Antonio (Preziosi) manages the pasta factory. Haughty mother Stefania (Savino), jovial but over-demanding father Vincenzo (Fantastichini), wise grandmother Oma (Occhini), and eccentric, sexy aunt Luciana (Ricci) complete the family portrait.

But their prosperous contentment turns out to be a sham. The next day, Tommaso confesses to his brother that he harbours ambitions to be a writer and is studying literature in Rome rather than business. He also announces that he is gay. But that evening Tommaso is trumped when, just as he is about to announce his secret, Antonio steps in and drops his own bombshell he himself is gay, and has been having an affair with a worker at the factory.

Unbelieving and then incensed, patriarch Vincenzo casts Antonio out of the family nest, and then suffers a minor heart attack at which point Tommaso is forced to put his own revelations on hold and step into the family business hes been trying all his life to get away from.

Ozpetek has changed co-writers a few times recently, but in Ivan Cotroneo, he seems to have found a congenial spirit able to channel that mix of social comedy and social comment that the director has always favoured but never quite nailed. Stories of unrequited love including a sequence involving the grandmother lend emotional heft, while Tommasos attempts to teach his parents some modicum of tolerance while keeping his own secret under wraps provide some moments of comedy.

But the all-out laughs only kick in when Tommasos boyfriend and three other gay friends turn up from Rome, and are sold to the townspeople by proud Vincenzo as lock up your daughters lotharios.

Theres a sense in Loose Cannons that Ozpetek, after experimenting with ever more lurid forms of melodrama, is moving towards a contemporary revival of the commedia allitaliana genre. Which can only be good for him and for audiences.

Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi, Lunetta Savino, Ennio Fantastichini, Elena Sofia Ricci, Ilaria Occhini, Bianca Nappi, Daniele Pecci, Carolina Crescentini, Massimiliano Gallo, Paola Minaccioni, Giorgio Marchesi, Matteo Taranto, Carmine Recano, Gianluca De Marchi, Gea Martire, Giancarlo Monticelli, Crescenza Guarnieri.

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  • We need the trailer with Engish subtitles.

  • Sorry, it is not available yet. But I will try to upload it soon.

  • @ciwciwdotcom

    Thank you!  I have talked about it to several friends outside Italy, and they would be very interested in it.

  • You are welcome. I added behind the scenes and I am very interested in it too, cant wait for watch in theatre this friday ;-)

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  • The best movie ever! :D Riccardo scamarcio -3

  • Looks pretty good

  • @april3104 50 mila by nina zilli (without/senza Giuliano Palma)

  • @sel365 the trailer is available on u tube with English sub-titles

  • The trailer with english sub-titels exist already on youtube. So the same for the DVD on amazoon or ibs . it

  • the song that is playing in trailer is in pes 2011 too! :D

  • cool movie..check this at webmovietube

  • webmovietube is the best place to watch movies onle for free..njoy

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