Reality (2013)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 58
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 12
Part dark satire, part compelling drama, Reality occasionally struggles to communicate its message, but it's never less than entertaining.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 2
Part dark satire, part compelling drama, Reality occasionally struggles to communicate its message, but it's never less than entertaining.
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From acclaimed director Matteo Garrone, REALITY is a darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control, making for one of the most compelling tragicomic character studies since Scorsese's The King of Comedy. (c)
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The satire here is finespun, and the film's conclusions ambiguous.
Top CriticA dark allegorical comedy about the nature of fame, about obsession, about madness - and the point where they converge: on Big Brother, a TV show watched by millions.
For all its ups and downs and occasional detours into boorishness, it's an original that will surprise if not necessarily delight fans of Garrone's very different crime drama, "Gomorrah."
Matteo Garrone follows his crime epic Gomorrah with a comedy about reality TV, and though it hardly rivals the earlier movie in its social complexity, it still offers the spectacle of a vibrant and vividly realized Neapolitan neighborhood.
As cautionary tales go, this one's ripely knowing, and it speaks in a lot more languages than Italian.
Garrone has a feeling for sweep and color, and he makes Luciano a pathetic victim of the unrealities with which TV can beset us.
As soon as the reality show element comes in, the movie abandons its creativity and goes for broad, anxious comedy that never works.
Uma obra inteligente, engraçada e profundamente relevante.
A feast of eye candy and broad comic caterwauling.
A chilling dose of filmic reality of how damaging and all consuming celebrity and some people's aspirations of it can be ...
signifies the moral bankruptcy and delirium of Silvio Berlusconi's government-as-game-show regime
It's a step down from his previous work as it's less ambitious and doesn't quite come together but it features enough interesting ideas about our fame-obsessed culture to see why it connected with the French fest jury.
It's a sad story, told at too great a length, but its final image is devastating.
That may not be a new thesis but Garrone portrays it beautifully -- from the first God-like view from a helicopter to the film's denouement.
Garrone's critique of Italy's current cultural vapidity is too indulgently affectionate and lacks both originality and bite.
A handsomely crafted film but one that already feels dated.
The film falls on its own sword by creating a dish that is more than a little overcooked, though even a cursory glance at Italian television might suggest that it is virtually impossible to exaggerate anything.
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Foreign Titles
- Reality (Il Grande Fratello) (DE)
- Reality (UK)
