Sculpt Express

It’s an odyssey of friendship and love where nothing is perfect and nothing will be. To paraphrase the author, intense relationships are full of traps and it takes lots of skill and effort to avoid them. There is a great insight in Ferrante’s books about how much our first homes and our childhood roots determine the rest of our lives. Here in the Neapolitan quartet we have a bouquet of characters of whom some leave to succeed outside their “neighborhood,” while others try to do the same within their given confines. The question poses itself could we ever cut off our roots?

Spoof, but instead of being easily forgotten light laugh, it’s a clever artwork that you’ll wish to watch more than once. In few words, it’s a tragicomic portrait of what a dictatorship is actually like and although it’s about Stalin, it could be about any dictator who runs the country with an ugly, irresponsible crowd of brutal devotees, where the only value that exist is how to survive for oneself.