Dogman (film)

Dogman
Film poster
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Produced by Matteo Garrone
Jeremy Thomas
Jean Labadie
Paolo Del Brocco
Written by Ugo Chiti
Maurizio Raucci
Matteo Garrone
Massimo Gaudioso
Starring Marcello Fonte
Edoardo Pesce
Music by Michele Braga
Cinematography Nicolaj Brüel
Edited by Marco Spoletini
Production
companies
Archimede
Le Pacte
Distributed by 01 Distribution
Release date
  • 16 May 2018 (2018-05-16) (Cannes)
  • 17 May 2018 (2018-05-17) (Italy)
Running time
 102 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

Dogman is a 2018 Italian drama film directed by Matteo Garrone. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2] At Cannes, Marcello Fonte won the award for Best Actor.[3] It was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards.[4]

Plot

Marcello is a quiet dog coiffeur that lives in the Magliana neighborhood in Rome: he spends his days between his work, the love for his daughter Alida and a peaceful relationship with his neighbors. However, he also trades cocaine in order to earn some more money, and this brings him to befriend Simoncino, a violent former boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood with acts of violence and robbing and gives Marcello a small percentage of the money he steals.

One day, Simoncino finds out that Marcello's shop borders with a jeweler's shop and suggests Marcello to break through the wall and steal all the money and the jewels. Marcello doesn't want to do it, since he doesn't want to ruin his friendship with the other neighbors, but in the end he is forced to oblige Simoncino by giving him the key to his shop and let him rob the other shop during the night. Simoncino steals everything and leaves enough evidence to blame Marcello for the robbery: once he has to decide between denouncing Simoncino or spending a year in jail, he decides to get imprisoned.

One year later, Marcello is freed but all his neighbors now blame him for the robbery and leave him alone and his business is not going well anymore. Simoncino, instead of thanking Marcello for his loyalty, has spent all his money, including the money for Marcello, buying a motorcycle. Marcello is now less submissive and when Simoncino refuses to give him his money, he damages the motorcycle, only to get beaten and humiliated by Simoncino the day after in front of all the neighbors. From this moment, Marcello starts planning his revenge.

A few days later, Marcello tells Simoncino that he has befriended some drug dealers and that he gave them an appointment in his shop in order to rob them. He asks Simoncino to take part in this plan and take a large part of the drug they'll steal. Once in the shop, Marcello tells Simoncino to hide inside a cage and to take advantage of their distraction to rob them. Once Simoncino is locked in the cage, Marcello tells him that there's no appointment and that now is Simoncino's turn to get humiliated. Furiously angry, Simoncino manages to break free and Marcello stuns him with a metal bar, but once Simoncino wakes up again, he tries to strangle the dog coiffeur. While trying to free himself, Marcello hangs Simoncino with a chain, killing him. In order to dispose of the corpse, Marcello brings Simoncino in the countryside and tries to burn him; he then comes back to the neighborhood to tell everybody that Simoncino's abuses of power are over, but everybody ignores him. Marcello comes back to extinguish the fire and brings Simoncino's body as an evidence of what he did, but everybody has disappeared, leaving him all alone.

Cast

  • Marcello Fonte as Marcello
  • Edoardo Pesce as Simoncino
  • Alida Baldari Calabria as Alida
  • Nunzia Schiano as Simoncino's mother
  • Adamo Dionisi as Franco
  • Francesco Acquaroli as Francesco

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The 2018 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Cannes Lineup Includes New Films From Spike Lee, Jean-Luc Godard". Variety. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. ↑ Debruge, Peter (19 May 2018). "2018 Cannes Film Festival Award Winners Announced". Variety. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
  4. ↑ Anderson, Ariston (25 September 2018). "Oscars: Italy Selects 'Dogman' for Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 25 September 2018.

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