Special affects

Mediterraneo 2, the return. Gabriele Salvatores returns with "Amnèsia" to the places that won him an Oscar, but this time in a contemporary setting and somewhat closer to the West, on the island of Ibiza: it is here that he brings the various characters of the film for a funeral, following their different stories over three days, and bringing them together, as they encounter each other in a bar called Amnesia.
And so we get to know Sandro, a 50-year-old porno film-maker who has come to the island to shoot a movie, and is appalled by the news of the sudden arrival on the island of his seventeen-year-old daughter, the fruit of a one night stand, until now hidden away in a college in Florence-intent on holidaying with him; then there's Angelino, the manager of a modest bar and small-time pusher of marijuana, anxious to settle down with Alice and have a child; Xavier is the local chief of police, constantly at loggerheads with his son Jorge, a 20-year-old anticonformist rebel. 
One day Angelino casually stumbles upon a suitcase containing four kilos of cocaine: suddenly, he begins to ponder how all his problems would be instantly solved if he could somehow sell it, a dream solution...
Flowing and with never a dull moment, the first part of "Amnèsia" has the pace of a comedy that entertains and is punctuated with a good deal of sharp observations on society; afterwards, it moves towards the "mystery" genre, and the light-hearted tone is less present. From this point on the film is less convincing, restrained by too many motives, lost in a labyrinth of explanations and burdened by a verbosity that leaves the viewer puzzled and eventually, bored. Salvatores should have greater faith in his own means: as he had in the more accomplished "Denti", and as we hope he will again have in the future.

Francesco Troiano

Special affects

Mediterraneo 2, the return. Gabriele Salvatores returns with "Amnèsia" to the places that won him an Oscar, but this time in a contemporary setting and somewhat closer to the West, on the island of Ibiza: it is here that he brings the various characters of the film for a funeral, following their different stories over three days, and bringing them together, as they encounter each other in a bar called Amnesia.
And so we get to know Sandro, a 50-year-old porno film-maker who has come to the island to shoot a movie, and is appalled by the news of the sudden arrival on the island of his seventeen-year-old daughter, the fruit of a one night stand, until now hidden away in a college in Florence-intent on holidaying with him; then there's Angelino, the manager of a modest bar and small-time pusher of marijuana, anxious to settle down with Alice and have a child; Xavier is the local chief of police, constantly at loggerheads with his son Jorge, a 20-year-old anticonformist rebel. 
One day Angelino casually stumbles upon a suitcase containing four kilos of cocaine: suddenly, he begins to ponder how all his problems would be instantly solved if he could somehow sell it, a dream solution...
Flowing and with never a dull moment, the first part of "Amnèsia" has the pace of a comedy that entertains and is punctuated with a good deal of sharp observations on society; afterwards, it moves towards the "mystery" genre, and the light-hearted tone is less present. From this point on the film is less convincing, restrained by too many motives, lost in a labyrinth of explanations and burdened by a verbosity that leaves the viewer puzzled and eventually, bored. Salvatores should have greater faith in his own means: as he had in the more accomplished "Denti", and as we hope he will again have in the future.

Francesco Troiano