SYNOPSICS
Nessuna qualità agli eroi (2007) is a Italian,French movie. Paolo Franchi has directed this movie. Bruno Todeschini,Elio Germano,Irène Jacob,Maria de Medeiros are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. Nessuna qualità agli eroi (2007) is considered one of the best Crime,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to remain nothing more than a son, he begins his downward slide, as if a fog had shut him in a cage from which there is no escape. Bruno can never have children .He says nothing about this diagnosis to Anne, his beloved wife. Nor does he tell her about a large debt he has taken out. It is as if Bruno were a man without any qualities or talents. A mediocre man who has lost all pride. Though now everything appears hazy in his memory. Like a river that flows peacefully, showing no signs of the hidden currents at work below. But at times those currents can return to the surface. Without warning.
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Franchi tries too hard, and does not make it
It is no surprise that even the official presentation copy from the 64th Venice Film Festival had little hope for this movie to win any prize, though it was enthusiastically entered in the fray. It is the third worst movie I have ever seen in my life. I let you imagine which the other two are. Franchi was quoted by the media saying something to the tune "we wanted to show thin line between consciousness and unconscious". I am afraid he made such a mess of it that the line was completely blurred. Of course Italian media will not be so drastic about it. This movie is the first one I remarked as being produced by both RAI and RTI, the arch-rivals on the TV market, who, between the two of them, control 90% of the advertising media market. I have not yet read commentaries from the papers, but I am almost certain they will contain an avalanche of sustaining and reinforcing platitudes meant to salvage the production from the fiasco they deserve. It will be the same kind of idiocies that Nanni Moretti ironically made one of the characters in "Caro Diario" - a critic who had incensed the gory 'Harry' - apologize for in one of the most successful revenges of good vs. bad art I have ever witnessed. This is bad art. It is not even art. It is pornography. I can specify why. A leading critic, a Mr. Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, once clarified a method to sieve porn out of other more acceptable art forms: "If the characters spend too much time coming in and out of doors, then it is porn". Franchi not only has provided us with an enormous load of coming in and out of doors, but has provided us with the most explicit sex scenes after M.me Breillat opened the flood. With a difference: in her movies, those made sense. In this, they do not. The fact that she was in the jury did not help the movie win anything. I am glad about that. Production has been approximative. Even with the sustain of RTSI, a Swiss National TV channel, which explains why the characters have to be idiotically speaking French and Italian, and live in a suspended state between Turin and Geneva, the story and the filming make senseless fumbles of logic and of basic "homework". Two examples. Who would be the idiot to take a train from Turin to Geneva (a trip between 7 and 11 hours as per the online schedules) when a car ride would be only 2? How would the protagonist be delivered to his parents' villa (somewhere outside Geneva) by a taxi of the Canton Vaud, which he should have allegedly boarded in Geneva town? Anyone who spent more than 1 hour in Switzerland would know that is impossible. So should have known the people from the Swiss production, who, evidently, let this project progress in a very un-Swiss mess. Alas, if these were the only shortcomings of the movie... I had a series of unintended (by the director) laughter episodes throughout the movie. The biggest one was during the "infamous" masturbation scene, when the two actors are asked to laugh through the evidently cut-to-fit scene. The problem is that in this movie there was nothing to laugh about. A total misery. I have not seen Mr. Franchi's earlier work, but I do hope it was of a completely different caliber from this disaster. My sadness was compounded by seeing a Maria De Medeiros cast in it. Possibly the only actor who had a part with some sensible lines, and possibly the only actor to act. They probably convinced her into joining with a different script. A last comment needs to be dedicated to the deafening soundtrack. I am sure Franchi meant it to underline the crescendos of tension and the inner altered states that the poor actors were not able to deliver on screen with their talent alone. The deafening noises were met by an equally deafening utter silence from the audience as the movie ended. Probably I was not the only one in disbelief.
The second film
I approached the second Paolo Franchi film " Nessuna qualità agli eroi" ( I like not conventional titles) with biased attitudes and I had to change my mind since the firsts shots It is a masterful job, dense, consistent with what was already present in the first work. The director enacts the relationship between father and son with an original dramatic tension, inspired to Dostoevskij, Camus, Musil. It is a noir, where hate and love, ambivalence and sincerity, guilt and punishment, or the complexity of psichic life, corrode from the inside the backbone of the film genre. Human relations, thank to a photography that enhances lights and shadows and sometimes resolves in a dazzling white so mysterious, take a place in a concrete way ( the core of the plot is a murder), yet remain suspended between dream and reality, freedom and claustrophobia, anxiety and abandonment. The impeccabile choice of environment, the artistic direction of actors, the formal rigor, the musical design give the film a European label, perhaps for this reason in Italy someone did not understand it and misjudged