L'amico di famiglia

Nov 10 2006 N/A 1h 42m
Drama

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...

Plot

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...

Written by

Paolo Sorrentino

Directed by

Paolo Sorrentino

Production Countries

France, Italy

Production Companies

Fandango, Indigo Film, Medusa Film, Sky, Babe Film, StudioCanal, Canal+, Wild Bunch

Languages

Français, Italiano

Awards

2 wins & 16 nominations

Scores
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4,582
Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
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