(Rome Marino fearful- Photos are published courtesy of the RIFF 2018)

Previewed at Riff 2018, The match It is the first film by the young director Francesco Carnesecchi, It is taken from a previous short film.

This is the story of a small team of South Rome, that, although there for several years, as a caption is to say "never won a shit". The story of a small team small that, however, It failed to prevent small criminals approfittassero shady place to reap economic benefits at the expense of inexperienced managers and coaches.

And so, with an atypical structure, complete with frequent and often unexpected space-time shifts is staging what, probably, It was the most important game of that football team, between various intrigues and dreams of young players and their parents.

An ensemble film, This Carnesecchi, which is staging a successful parent-child conflict in an endless generational struggle where no one really comes out winner. A product so imperfect and often poorly calibrated, with a lot of elements brought in and left unjustifiably suspended, but also an extremely honest work and heard, where there are gimmicks and funny comic scenes to the paradoxical limits (see, eg, the brawl during the confirmation lunch cousin of one of the young players), that bind well to the rest of the staging. great business card for a filmmaker who has still a long way to go.

marina fears