Fresh
All the surface style is properly wrapped around ideas of substance.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Overview
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 and cast
- Paolo Sorrentino Director
- Giacomo Rizzo as Geremia
- Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Gino
- Laura Chiatti as Rosalba
- Gigi Angelillo as Saverio, Rosalba's father
- Clara Bindi as Geremia's mother
- Barbara Valmorin as Bingo's Grandmother
- Antonella Salvucci as Presenter
- Marco Giallini as Attanasio
- Giorgio Colangeli as Massa
- Alina Nedelea as Belana
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The film fails singularly to provide any character worth caring about.
Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter
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
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