Actor Paul Diano his debut as a director in an extraordinary balance of images and shots

From Turin Marino fearful (the photos are published courtesy of the Turin Film Festival)

Previewed at thirty-sixth edition of the Turin Film Festival, within the Official competition, Wildlife is the first film actor Paul Dano, It is drawn from the novel by Richard Ford.

With a successful and charming atmosphere in America in the sixties, the actor has staged an interesting family drama, where we see a young family man (Jake Gyllenhaal) be suddenly unemployed. After finding a second job as a fireman, the man set off for a small mountain village, around which there is a huge and dangerous fire. The wife of him (Carey Mulligan), in crisis due to the remoteness of husband, will inevitably move away from him, making even the teenage son alive firsthand the crisis within the family.

What of a job like this immediately affects, is the extraordinary balance of images and shots which - together with a photograph in pastel tones - indicates such a perfect situation how dangerously fragile. And indeed, just very little to ensure that all, slowly, to crumble. change, at this point, he also directed - much less "static" and balanced than it was at the beginning - and the same narrative course, that, as attractive and well-calibrated at the beginning of the film, gradually it tends to flatten out after the second half of the film, before recovering in the successful final scene.

Among the pillars of the entire work are undoubtedly the interpreters, among which an extraordinary Carey Mulligan, that, for this work, You may also receive important awards.

Everything converges in a first film successful and enjoyable, whose forgivable imperfections are due, probably, only to a certain inexperience of the director behind the camera.

marina fears