ITALY · 2009

The Slow Game

Paolo Sorrentino
family struggle working-class life Italian suburban culture sports as metaphor resilience against adversity
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Synopsis

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an Italian family against the trials and tribulations of life.

Year2009
CountryItaly
DirectorPaolo Sorrentino
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