Wednesday, September 16, 2009



Dir/prod: Erik Gandini. Sweden-Denmark. 2009. 85 mins.

Italy has found its Michael Moore in Erik Gandini. The half-Italian, half-Swedish director adopts the same subjective, irony-laced ‘creative documentary’ approach in this powerful study of the cohabitation between trash-TV and the political system in Silvio Berlusconi’s Italy. However, unlike the Michigan mauler, Gandini mostly keeps himself out of the picture and lets a well-chosen array of subjects – TV agents, paparazzi, wannabe stars – carry his message that the unhealthy concentration of media and political power in the hands of a single man has pushed Italy to the brink of moral meltdown.
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Outside of Italy, the documentary already has a few TV deals in place through backers like the BBC’s Storyville, but should also see some theatrical action in territories with literate, politicised viewers hungry for some background on Berlusconi and contemporary Italy.

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# posted by intcoex : 7:27 PM




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