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: NoShame Films
: Foreign, Suspense/Thriller, Italy, Crime
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The Italian maestro of suspense Michele Soavi (THE CHURCH, DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE) tries his hand at the Italo-crime genre with this fast-paced, violent thriller in the tradition of Michael Mann's HEAT. Kim Rossi-Stuart (THE NAME OF THE ROSE, PINOCCHIO) and Dino Abbrescia (I'M NOT SCARED) star as police detectives on the trail of a criminal gang targeting banks, supermarkets
and gas stations along the Rimini coast. Always one step behind the perpetrators, the authorities' only clue is the villain's choice of getaway car, a white Fiat Uno. When an exchange of gunfire with the bandits results in the death of their superior officer, the partners go beyond the reach of the law to bring the killers to justice& only to find that the identities of these masked men are as shocking as their crimes.
Based on Marco Melega's nonfiction book Baglioni e Costanza, which chronicled the investigation of a string of terrorist-like acts in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy in 1991, UNO BIANCA finds Michele Soavi employing his trademark shock tactics to give added tension to this paranoid action film, scripted by Stefano Rulli (THE STOLEN CHILDREN) and veteran EuroCult actor-writer Luigi Montefiori (a.k.a. George Eastman, ANTHROPHAGUS, RABID DOGS).
NoShame Films is proud to present the premiere of this two-part, three-hour film, originally broadcast on Italian television and unlike anything you've ever seen in prime time
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| This Italian Police Procedural is a "Find"
by talltale
July 25, 2006 - 5:21 PM PDT
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A top-notch thriller/police procedural via Italy, UNO BIANCA is one of the best of this kind that I have seen. Made for Italian television, it dwarfs most of our own attempts at this genre, managing to be thrilling, suspenseful, extremely frightening (due to the growing build-up as to who the perpetrators are) and--moment to moment--consistently involving. While the levels and management of the Italian justice system work quite differently from our own, no one should have trouble following what happens--and why.
The cast is fine, too. Italian looker Kim Rossi Stuart shows his acting chops better here than in the French TV version of Stendhal's "The Red & The Black," and very nearly as well as he does in Gianni Amelio's brilliant "The Keys to the House." The supporting cast, mostly unknown to me, acquits itself very well, and the taut direction is by Michele Soave (probably best know for his grizzly/funny "Cemetary Man"). The two-disc set totals nearly 3½ hours, yet there's not a wasted minute. This is riveting stuff and, for my money, one of the DVD "finds" of the year. |
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