FILM
Siccità
Dry
La Paloma Theatre
Thursday, June 13, 2024
7:00 pm
$16.00
$12 SDIFF Members & Military | $7 Students
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Year
2022
DIRECTED BY
Carolina Cavalli
Screenplay
Carolina Cavalli
Editing
Babak Jalali
Cinematography
Lorenzo Levrini
Music
Niccolò Contessa
Cast
Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Michele Bravi
Producer
Production
Elsinore Film, Wildside, I Wonder Pictures, Charades, Tenderstories
World Sales
Oscilloscope
Review
An imagined three-year drought serves as the point of departure for the latest by Paolo Virzì, a satirical ensemble drama that features a top-notch cast and a clever way with social critique. Set in Rome, Dry follows a constellation of self-absorbed characters as the drought and subsequent water shortage take their toll on the city’s population, exacerbating socioeconomic tensions and perhaps suggesting the imminent end of days. Virzì slyly observes these sometimes likable, sometimes repellent people as their paths cross amid the semi-apocalyptic circumstances, ultimately arriving at a wryly ironic film about the post-Covid world and the vanity of humans in the face of global catastrophe.
In Italian with English subtitles.
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