Paolo Genovese's "The Place": an Off | the place movie explanation
StruckbytheNetflixseriesTheBoothattheEnd(2010-12),PaoloGenoveseturnitintoanoff-the-griddrama:ThePlace,specialeventattheRomeFilmFest,willbereleasedtheatricallyinItalyonNovember9on500screensthankstoMedusa.TheboxofficesuccessofhispreviousPerfectStrangers(over17millionEuro)allowedGenovesetoexperimentwithadifferentkindoffilm,farfromthecomedieshehadmadesofar:"Afterthesuccess,themainriskwastomakesomethingclosetoPerfectStrangersagain.Instead,quotingtheTavianibrothers,Itriedtomakesomethingthattheaudi...
Struck by the Netflix series The Booth at the End (2010-12), Paolo Genovese turn it into an off-the-grid drama: The Place, special event at the Rome Film Fest, will be released theatrically in Italy on November 9 on 500 screens thanks to Medusa. The box office success of his previous Perfect Strangers (over 17 million Euro) allowed Genovese to experiment with a different kind of film, far from the comedies he had made so far: "After the success, the main risk was to make something close to Perfect Strangers again. Instead, quoting the Taviani brothers, I tried to make something that the audience dont know yet, and that might like."As in the series, we have a single place and a mysterious man (Valerio Mastandrea) who sits all day long at the end of a cosy bar, "The Place", with a schedule full of meetings. Day and night, he waits for his "clients" who ask him to help them realize their sometimes impossible desires. The nameless man asks them to do something in return, an ac...