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The Family Friend

2006, Movie, 1h 42min

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

Country: Italy,France

Director:

Paolo Sorrentino

Cast:

Giorgio Colangeli,

Marco Giallini,

Fabrizio Bentivoglio,

Valentina Lodovini

Critic Patrick Peters

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This is a grim fairy tale whose exquisite design emphasises the characters’ spiritual emptiness...

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"The Family Friend" tells the story of Geremia, a lonely and miserly old man who lives with his bedridden mother and has a toxic relationship with money. He offers loans to his neighbors and meddles in their lives, pretending to be their helpful friend. When he falls in love with Rosalba, a beautiful young woman, he begins to question his values and confront his inner demons. Will he find a way to open his heart and let love in, or will his obsession with wealth consume him?

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