SENZA PIETÀ - Discovery

by Michele Alhaique
Italy/France 2014, 93 minutes

with Pier Francesco Favino, Greta Scarano, Claudio Gioè, Adriano Giannini, Ninetto Davoli, Iris Peynado

International Premiere

world sales INDIE SALES

Mimmo much prefers building to breaking bones. He just wants to be a stone-mason, but he also does a little debt collection on the side in the tower blocks in the poorer neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Rome. He works for his uncle, Signor Santili, whom he loves and respects like a father. On the other hand, he cannot stand his spoilt and arrogant cousin, Manuel Santili. The aversion is mutual. «Il Roscio», who would be his best friend - if he ever happened to be anyone’s friend - and the company’s half dozen employees round out his family. It’s a world of clear rules and hierarchies, in which if you don’t mess up, you’re ensured of enough to get by and a little more. Fair or unfair, it’s the only world that Mimmo has ever known.
But everything changes when Tanya bursts into his life. She’s young and beautiful and has understood very early on that you’re on your own in life. She knows that men are willing to spend to have her and she takes full advantage of the fact. Unexpectedly obliged to spend a night and a day together, Mimmo and Tanya find themselves united in the need to feel loved and by a desire to flee from a destiny already mapped out.

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