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Re Granchio
The Tale of King Crab
Italy / Argentina / Spain 2021
produced by
Tommaso Bertani, Ezequiel Borovinsky, Agustina Costa Varsi, Thomas Ordonneau for Ring Film, Volpe Films, Wanka Cine, Shellac Sud, RAI
directed by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
starring Gabriele Silli, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Ercole Colnago, Bruno di Giovanni, Giovanni Morichelli, Renato Sterpa, Severino Sperandio, Eccelso Cassanelli, Domenico Chiozzi, Claudio Castori, Ugo Farnetti, Enzo Cucchi, Alessandro Cicoria, Mariano Arce, Darío Levy, Jorge Prado, Daniel Tur, Fernando Almirón
story by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis, Tommaso Bertani, Carlo Lavagna, screenplay by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis, music by Vittorio Giampietro, special effects by M.A.G. Special Effects
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Italy, the 1800s: In a village that's along the lines of aristocrats
and farmers, Luciano (Gabriele Silli), son of the influential local
doctor, belongs to neither caste, and feeling thus alienated by everyone
he has become the village drunk - and a rebelliouos one at that, as his
father's status keeps him out of troubles mostly. However, he eventually
takes it too far with the local prince when he demands right of passage
over an area the Prince has closed off out of fancy, and eventually he's
shot and wounded by the authorities, who also go ahead and rape his
girlfriend Emma (Maria Alexandra Lungu). As a result, Luciano sets fire to
the palace, causing some fatalities ... and under the protection of his
father has to leave the country for Argentina, where he rather by accident
learns about a buried pirate treasure from a dying priest that can only be
found when following a crab to her favourite lake, and Luciano decides to
assume the identity of the priest and go on a treasure hunt, equipped with
the crab in question. Thing is, there's a quartet of pirates who are after
the treasure as well, and know that Luciano knows its location, and as
they capture him, he needs to play the pirates against one another to stay
on top of the game - only he's tied up and they have weapons ... Very
loosely based on a local legend, this movie is essentially a fable that is
situated somewhere between stark realism and fairy tale, a movie that
avoids spectacle to let the (often breathtaking) pictures speak for
themselves, and employs a fittingly archaic cinematic language to tell its
tale - and the result is pretty impressive as it feels to be a film fallen
out of its time, and in the best possible way, as the film doesn't feel in
the least old-fashioned, just very primal and direct, and feels very real
for that. A rather unique film, actually.
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