Titta di Girolamo is a middle-aged man, who lives in a hotel of an anonymous Swiss town, estranged from his wife, alienated from his kids.
He works on behalf of the Mafia, his life goes always the same between the rooms of a hotel and a visit to the bank every week to deliver a suitcase full of cash.
He is grumpy, lonely, unfriendly. But at some point in his life, he is completely overwhelmed by the need for love and ties that for too long had rejected... thus an encounter with a charming bartender which will lead to a tragic end.
Despite being populated by gangsters, this film is not a film about the Mafia, rather a meditation, with no real moral implications, the mechanism and implications of the awakening of a man emotionally drugged.
A screenplay by manual cinema.
Meager dialogues, but the characters tell with his eyes, without ornaments or smearing lexical interpretation.
Cold faces that alternate and collide on the screen, you fill the eye and make themselves known slowly, gradually.
Remarkable interpretation of Toni Servillo.
It is a valuable and crucial stage of the Italian cinema of the last decade.
Highly Recommended.
