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the 70s and the 80s and
despite Gabriele Salvatores’ “Il ragazzo invisibile”:
in contrast to the more
free-range and genuine
Mainetti movie, Salvatores
made a film more tied to
certain coordinates of our
cinema, like a sometimes
excessive sentimentality
and a certain intellectual
detachment that did not
allowed him to go to the
bottom of the typical cha- ster movie “Suburra” by
racteristics of the genre.
Stefano Sollima. We'll see
if the David di Donatello
“Lo chiamavano Jeeg Ro- jury will recognize the imbot fits well in the list of the portance, at least from this
Italian works that, in recent point of view, of Mainetti’s
years, have tried to stir up work. The film, however,
a bit the stagnant situation already received the prize
of our cinema and our in- of the critics and the pudustry: another example blic of the Italian Cinema
is another “Roman" mo- Festival in Lisbon.
vie, the apocalyptical,
dark and nihilistic gang-
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