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Paz!
- Director: Renato De Maria
- Writer: Andrea Pazienza; Ivan Cotroneo
- Producer: Beppe Caschetto; Maurizio Feverati
CGiii Comment
It's been described as the Italian Trainspotting...it most definitely is not.
Considering this is meant to be about youth culture, the film has no life...zero energy.
The comedy is - simply - bad slapstick...contrived and humourless.
The camera-work is horrific - too, too many close-ups...and, the lighting is inadequate.
Not good enough and very unpleasant.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A bunch of students live in an apartment in Bologna, during the 70's. This is a 24-hour sample of their ordinary life, where, between marjuana, school, university, girls and political contrasts, spectators can get a nice and colourful picture of that time, of those people and of their ideas and problems. Crazy, halucinated, somehow "Trainspotting Italian style", this movie was taken from comic strips by Andrea Pazienza and it respects very well their atmosphere and style.
Cast & Characters
Flavio Pistilli as Zanardi;
Cristiano Callegaro as Sergio Petrilli;
Matteo Taranto as Colasanti;
Fabrizia Sacchi as Lucilla;
Claudio Santamaria as Pentothal;
Francesco Mastrorilli as Fascist leader;
Lorenzo Burlando as Fascist with a cudgel;
Bruno Ardilesi as Fascist with a chain;
Alessandro Molatore as Hit fascist;
Max Mazzotta as Enrico Fiabeschi;
Barbara Bonanni as Anna;
Iaia Forte as Miss Corona;
Raffaella Del Rosario as Colasanti's mother;
Lorenza Mazzetti as Sergio Petrilli's mother;
Roberto Citran as Teacher