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  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 56 m

Summary In the not-too-distant future on Italy’s southern coast, the city of Taranto has become a toxic wasteland ruled by warring gangs and surrounded by barbed wire, where best friends Pietro (nicknamed Mondocane) and Cristian (nicknamed Pisspants) dream of escaping their hardscrabble existence for a better life in nearby New Taranto. Opportun...

Written By: Alessandro Celli, Antonio Leotti

  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2022
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 56 m

Mondocane

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
45
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary In the not-too-distant future on Italy’s southern coast, the city of Taranto has become a toxic wasteland ruled by warring gangs and surrounded by barbed wire, where best friends Pietro (nicknamed Mondocane) and Cristian (nicknamed Pisspants) dream of escaping their hardscrabble existence for a better life in nearby New Taranto. Opportun...

Written By: Alessandro Celli, Antonio Leotti

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80
May 26, 2022
Mondocane is the finest Italian post-apocalypse movie ever made.
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50
May 21, 2022
Although the film takes place in a dystopian near future, the story rarely reveals any meaningful information about how society functions after an environmental collapse, or indeed portrays hardly any scene as though it could take place only within the confines of Mondocane.
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50
May 19, 2022
At its grungy heart, Alessandro Celli’s Mondocane is about the dissolution of a friendship. Yet this cynical, near-future crime thriller, with its Hunger Games morality and Mad Max aesthetic, is too busy glamorizing cruelty to allow its central relationship to resonate.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
May 19, 2022
Mondocane is a mixed bag, as its sci-fi without really committing to that, “Oliver Twist” without the warmth, entirely too predictable for stretches and entirely too frustrating in its finale.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
42
May 20, 2022
For what’s supposed to be a post-apocalyptic landscape, what you get seems more like an unremarkable city that a tourist’s European train-ride barrels through. If anything, something so wholly dependent on parts from the past to depict the future is the most dystopian prospect.
By Ethan Vestby FULL REVIEW
42
May 19, 2022
This Italian post-apocalyptic film from director Alessandro Celli angles for child soldier depravity without any of the heart.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Groenlandia, Minerva Pictures, Rai Cinema, Regione Lazio, Regione Puglia, Apulia Film Commission
Release Date May 20, 2022
Duration 1 h 56 m
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Website https://groenlandiagroup.com/it/portfolio/mondocane/
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Awards

Golden Ciak Awards
• 4 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
La Pellicola d'Oro
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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