Reality
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings
- Starring: Aniello Arena, Claudia Gerini, Giuseppina Cervizzi, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone, Nello Iorio, Nunzia Schiano, Paola Minaccioni, Raffaele Ferrante, Rosaria D'Urso
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- Director: Matteo Garrone
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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100The movie’s a funny, dark, increasingly razor-sharp inquiry into the metaphysics of modern fame — how the dream of “being seen” and thus validated on some primal level can completely unhinge the average schmo.
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90Garrone's film grows in your head afterward, making royal hash out of a cultural paradigm we'll be loath to remember years from now—if, by then, everything hasn't become "reality."
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90Garrone achieves something uniquely colorful, disturbing and trenchant about self-perception in an increasingly fishbowl-like society.
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80The film belongs to Arena, outstanding as a man growing ever more delusional in his quest to acquire celebrity status.
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67Spoofing the pernicious effects of television, especially the so-called reality genre, doesn't require pinpoint aim, and at times Luciano seems as much a target of ridicule as the superficial, oversexed entertainment served up on the tube.
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60In short, there are moments, in this very uneven film with its lamination of the ancient and the monstrously new, when the spirit of Fellini hovers overhead like a naughty angel. [25 March 2013, p.109]
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40This vision of contemporary Italy as a warped fairyland filled with corpulent slobs and seedy C-grade celebrities recalls the tough-love spectacle of Fellini’s "La Dolce Vita," but Reality frustratingly devolves into a far more tedious mass-media morality tale.
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