SouthbankPreview: Reality
Satiric fable in which a Neapolitan fishmonger, obsessed with becoming a Big Brother contestant, threatens to wreck his life and destroy his family.
Italy-France 2012
Directed by Matteo Garrone
With With Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone
Running time 115min
Certificate 15
Courtesy of Independent Film Distribution
Fishmonger Luciano has a larger-than- life personality that serves him well as a party guest dressed in drag, or as a wheeler-dealer around Naples. A series of coincidental meetings with a rich and famous Big Brother contestant lead him into an obsession with being chosen for the show himself, plunging headfirst into financial and emotional distress and taking his family with him. This colourful, humorous, dark satire from Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone won the Cannes Grand Prix and took the BFI London Film Festival by storm.
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