Pianese Nunzio - May 14th
| Movie | |
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| German title | Pianese Nunzio - May 14th |
| Original title | Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Antonio Capuano |
| script | Antonio Capuano |
| production | Gianni Minervini |
| music | Tiziano Crotti |
| camera | Antonio Baldoni |
| cut | Giogiò Franchini |
| occupation | |
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Pianese Nunzio - 14 in May (Original title: Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio ) is an Italian film from 1996.
action
The 35-year-old priest Lorenzo Borrelli, known as "Father Lorenzo", who inwardly struggles with his erotic inclination towards young and very young men, comes as a pastor to a district of Naples marked by unemployment, social neglect and crime . The social and economic life here is largely dominated by the Camorra , and there are regular shootings on the streets of warring clans with fatalities. The sensitive and musically gifted 13-year-old Nunzio Pianese, who was deported from his separated parents to his aunt Rosaria, seeks the security in the church and with Father Lorenzo that he has with his careworn aunt, his superficial mother, his mentally ill unable to work Father and his criminal older brother Giovanni does not find. Nunzio also wants to be a priest. Father Lorenzo ensnares Nunzio and eventually makes him enter into a sexual relationship with him.
Nunzio hooks up with Ada, who is of the same age, and begins an age-appropriate romance with her. They get caught in a Camorra shootout, with Ada being fatally shot. At Ada's funeral mass, Father Lorenzo harshly calls on the congregation to resist the Camorra, and he excludes Camorristi from his congregation from receiving communion and church burial. The press became aware of him and soon he was known in public as a courageous fighter against the Camorra. The organization is reluctant to kill him, as doing so would create a martyr, and tries to harm him in other ways. Camorra informers can even be found in the inner circle of the parish: The naive 20-year-old Anna Maria, who takes turns cooking and cleaning with other women in the rectory, tries to sexually stalk the priest, but does not reap success. A young woman named Sandra makes a deal with Luigi Grasso, a young drug addict whom Father Lorenzo brought down the gutter: she supplies Luigi with drugs, in return he spies on details of Lorenzo's suspicious relationship with Nunzio. To gain information about his sexual orientation, Sandra seduces Nunzio, who experiences his first sex with a woman and now at the latest clearly recognizes his heterosexual orientation.
Detective officers who are themselves devoted to the Camorra interrogate Nunzio several times under increasing pressure, but he always denies the pastor's sexual abuse. For fear of discovery, Father Lorenzo persuades Nunzio that her love is something special and that her sexuality is liberating. From confused words that Nunzio speaks to his cousin Katia while half asleep, it is clear that the seduction by the priest traumatized him. The situation escalates when the Camorra has Katia raped and threatens Nunzio with death. Worn down by this, he puts all the facts on the table in front of the public prosecutor. Father Lorenzo agrees to make a confession.
criticism
The lexicon of international film judged: “A socially and politically committed film, which, however, does not find any artistic cohesion and tells its story full of clichés and stereotypes. The good intention is visible, but torpedoed by the striking script and the lack of personal drawings. "
According to kino.de, the director "cleverly combines the prejudices and reservations about the motifs of belief, sexuality and crime with the structure of his film [...] The staging relies on a sophisticated mixture of chamber play, visions, documentary gestures and intelligent discourse about the." moral constraints that inevitably arise with the 'unworthy' priest. "
background
The world premiere took place on September 5, 1996 at the Venice International Film Festival , where the film was shown in the competition program. In 1998 the film was shown at the Vinokino Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in Turku . The German dubbed version premiered on September 24, 1998.
Web links
- Pianese Nunzio - 14 in May in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pianese Nunzio - 14 in May in the lexicon of international film , accessed August 23, 2011.
- ↑ Pianese Nunzio - May 14 at: kino.de, accessed August 23, 2011.