‘Enea’ Review: An Overstuffed But Never Dull Snapshot Of Rome’s Young And Rich – Venice Film Festival
05.09.2023 - 18:31
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“I feel like there’s a sort of mouth over the city, ready to eat us up,” says Enea, sophisticated young nightclubber, tennis champion and coke dealer; if anyone is trying to swallow the Eternal City whole, it’s Enea himself. The son of intellectuals – his mother hosts a television chat show about literature; his father is a psychoanalyst – the inexhaustible Enea scoots and toots between the city’s most exclusive sports club, the city’s most exclusive parties and, even more thrillingly, rendezvous with the criminal classes, homespun proletarians to a man. “You need to marry Eva, have a child with her, make her happy. If you have no one to kiss, you go crazy,” advises Giordano (Adamo Dionisi), pusher and family man, when he learns that playboy Enea has acquired a girlfriend. Whatever. In his line of work and with the company he keeps, Giordano isn’t going to last that long.
In his second outing as writer and director, now showing in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Italian actor Pietro Castellitto throws everything in the director’s toybox at the screen. He also plays the central character, portraying him as a charismatic rogue; Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio plays his childhood friend, partner in crime and soulmate Valentino, who has recently and very usefully acquired his pilot’s license. Valentino sees Enea’s father as a patient. Rome looks like a concentration camp from above, he tells him during their weekly session. “Does flying make you feel free?” asks Celeste (Sergio Castellitto, Pietro’s father), a benevolent presence among the madness. “No!” replies Valentino emphatically. “If you fall, you all die!” For him, that risk is the real attraction.
Like his characters, Castellitto the writer-director revels in
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