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  • 2023
  • VMI Releasing
  • 2 h 21 m
  • 2023
  • VMI Releasing
  • 2 h 21 m

Summary Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are family when the 2nd world war hits Rome. It’s 1943, in the turmoil of the conflict and the eternal city is home to the circus in which they work. Israel, the owner and putative father, disappears in the attempt to find a getaway overseas for them all. Our four friends are in disarray. Without anyone...

Directed By: Gabriele Mainetti

Written By: Nicola Guaglianone, Gabriele Mainetti

  • 2023
  • VMI Releasing
  • 2 h 21 m
  • 2023
  • VMI Releasing
  • 2 h 21 m

Freaks vs. the Reich

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio and Mario are family when the 2nd world war hits Rome. It’s 1943, in the turmoil of the conflict and the eternal city is home to the circus in which they work. Israel, the owner and putative father, disappears in the attempt to find a getaway overseas for them all. Our four friends are in disarray. Without anyone...

Directed By: Gabriele Mainetti

Written By: Nicola Guaglianone, Gabriele Mainetti

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
44
29% Positive
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43% Mixed
3 Reviews
29% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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43% Mixed
3 Reviews
29% Negative
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90
May 4, 2023
If you’re suffering from superhero fatigue, this is just the palette cleanser you need.
By Alan Ng FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 12, 2024
Despite a scene that can only be described as “robust wereman and werewoman sex”, Gabriele Mainetti’s bouncy, carnivalesque alternate history is closer in tone to Hellboy than throwaway Syfy-channel Naziploitation.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
60
May 2, 2023
Its splashy, curiously filter-free adventures unfold in Italy and Germany during World War II, to sometimes awkward effect.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
50
May 2, 2023
The more fanciful qualities of Freaks vs. the Reich work fairly well. Mainetti has a gifted cast and a talented special effects department, so the scenes of these X-Men-like outcasts fighting fascism do look fantastic. But the film’s exhausting length is a challenge, as is Mainetti’s failure to use his historical setting meaningfully.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
40
May 2, 2023
Freaks Out seems preoccupied with looking cool and feeling offbeat without considering basic narrative requirements. With such an intense visual language and detailed costume and set design, it’s a shame that the story lacks similar heft.
By Lovia Gyarkye FULL REVIEW
33
May 2, 2023
The puzzling thing about Italian director Gabriele Mainetti’s feature set in 1943 in German-occupied Rome is that, rather than embracing tastelessness a la John Waters, it guns for earnestness despite not having a thoughtful bone in its body.
By Sophie Monks Kaufman FULL REVIEW
30
May 2, 2023
A ghastly concoction of razzle-dazzle circus maximalism, poorly CG’d supernatural whimsy and sentimentality so cloyingly sweet you can feel it in your fillings, “Freaks Out” is, however, almost admirably unaware that its over-egged, unironically “Springtime for Hitler” production design, and its lazy invocation of the Holocaust as a narrative shortcut to high emotional stakes, might be in questionable taste. Instead, this is a sincere, if deeply misguided attempt to fabricate weepy wonderment amid the ruination of World War II.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Goon Films, Lucky Red, Rai Cinema, Gapbusters, VOO, BE TV, Regione Lazio, European Union, Regione Calabria, Calabria Film Commission, Wallimage, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius, Gap Finders
Release Date Apr 28, 2023
Duration 2 h 21 m
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Website https://www.gapbusters.be/Films/Freaks-Out
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Awards

David di Donatello Awards
• 6 Wins & 16 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 10 Wins & 11 Nominations
La Pellicola d'Oro
• 10 Wins & 10 Nominations

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