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Una calda estate in un quartiere periferico di Roma. Nelle villette a schiera vivono alcune famiglie in cui il senso di disagio costituisce la cifra esistenziale comune anche quando si tenta di mascherarlo. I genitori sono frustrati dall'idea di vivere lì e non altrove, di avere (o non avere) un lavoro insoddisfacente, di non avere in definitiva raggiunto lo status sociale che pensavano di meritare. I figli vivono in questo clima e ne assorbono la negatività cercando di difendersene come possono e magari anche di reagire.
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Bad Tales (2020)
98 min
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.