PIÙ BUIO DI MEZZANOTTE (Darker than Midnight) - Semaine de la Critique

by Sebastiano Riso
Italy 2014, 98 min

with Davide Capone, Micaela Ramazzotti, Vincenzo Amato, Pippo Delbono, Lucia Sardo

produced by Claudio Saraceni

produced by IdeaCinema, Rai Cinema with support of MiBACT and Regione Sicilia

INTERNATIONAL SALES: RAI TRADE

 

Davide is fourteen years old. His delicate and effeminate looks do not fit in with his father’s ideas of what a boy should be like. Fleeing the constant conflicts at home, he is drawn to Catania’s biggest public park, Villa Bellini, a world apart that the rest of the city pretends not to see and whose regulars live on the margins of society.
Davide takes refuge in the company of hustlers and outcasts who accept him as one of them. But his double life between the expectations of his family and his new friends becomes untenable, and Davide is inexorably pushed into impossible choices that he has to face alone.

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