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    Salty Air

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    "L'Aria salata" is a contemporary Italian film by first time director Alessandro Angelini, a very praiseworthy debut, indeed. We are dealing with serious, realistic material that mainly revolves around a father and son relationship, but so much more. The film is captivating by its unusual premise, its necessary gloominess and the high voltage tension that runs throughout. The title is allegorical and refers to the SALTY SEA AIR which, with time, covers everything it touches with a strange layer of rust! You can only understand this reference when you see the film. Director Angelini who also co-wrote the script covers quite a spectrum of the human condition especially as it concerns one particular family.

    L'Aria salata engrossed me to the max especially as there were no subtitles to distract me from the Italian language itself. Sub-titles, are, of course, necessary in most cases, but they can never capture the complete essence of the original screenplay. In Italian, French, Spanish and German, my speaking languages, I often see how sub-titles can actually distort somehow the spoken words of the characters.

    In any case, L'ARIA concerns itself with a young man named Fabio, a professional prison assistant and educator who is directly responsible to Welfare Services. What starts as a fairly normal prison setting soon becomes extraordinary and engrossing as the protagonist, the slightly embittered penitentiary officer, is suddenly jolted by quite the unwelcome "blast from the past", as it were. What the film will show is how life can be turned upside by a single unpleasant event that just happens to cross our path awakening bitter memories like so many demons from years gone by. L'ARIA is so impressive as it is a multi-layered film directly tackling difficult issues with a sub-text that makes one ponder many other serious questions... e.g. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT! The entire company of actors is a splendid ensemble which performs to perfection, particularly outstanding is Giorgio Colangeli as the father. The film has been critically so well received and taken some awards; the one sad note is that more people have not been able to see this gem mainly because of distribution rights.

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    pietroantoni@  16.2.2015 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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