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The Family Friend
Drama - 2006
The Family Friend
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Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
Director:
,
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast:
,
Laura Chiatti
,
Fabrizio Bentivoglio
,
Giacomo Rizzo

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Details

Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
1 Oct 2006
Languages:
Italian, French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 16 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Paolo Sorrentino's third feature The Family Friend expands the maverick helmer's singular vision, though this time he's crafted a more complex world to illustrate his philosophy: everyone steals, and everyone is unhappy.
– Jay Weissberg,
Variety,
25 May 2006
rotten:
The film fails singularly to provide any character worth caring about.
– Ray Bennett,
Hollywood Reporter,
26 May 2006
fresh:
All the surface style is properly wrapped around ideas of substance.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
29 Nov 2006
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