
Paolo Sorrentino
THE FAMILY FRIEND
L'AMICO DI FAMIGLIA
Status: Completed
Director(s): Paolo Sorrentino
Main cast: Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Luigi Angelillo
Long synopsis : Geremia de' Geremei is 70. A usurer, ugly, filthy, rich and tight-fisted, cynical and ironic. He has a sick and obsessional relation with everything: his mother, his father, money, women. Life itself. That's why he thinks he's lonely. But in fact he is not alone. They're all like him. And so are we.
Cast
- Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Luigi Angelillo, Marco Giallini, Barbara Valmorin, Luisa De Santis
Crew
- Producer(s): Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, Domenico Procacci
- Director(s): Paolo Sorrentino
- Screenplay: Paolo Sorrentino
- DP: Luca Bigazzi
- Editing: Giogiò Franchini
- Original Music: Teho Teardo
- Set Design: Lino Fiorito
- Original Title: L'AMICO DI FAMIGLIA
- Genre(s): Drama
- Production company: BABE FILMS, STUDIOCANAL
- Production date: 2006
- Language: Italian
- Duration: 110 min
- Festival de Cannes 2006 - Competition
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006
- Festival do Rio 2006
- Chicago International Film Festival 2006
- Haifa International Film Festival 2006
- BFI London Film Festival 2006
- Sao Paulo Mostra Internacional de Cinema 2006
- Ljubljana International Film Festival 2006
- Bergen International Film Festival 2006
- Sevilla European Film Festival Festival 2006
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2006
- Palm Springs International Film Festival 2007
- Istanbul Film Festival 2007
- Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2007
- Copenhagen International Film Festival 2007