Reality (2013)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 54 | Rotten: 14
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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Cast
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Aniello Arena
Luciano -
Loredana Simioli
Maria -
Nando Paone
Michele -
Nunzia Schiano
Aunt Nunzia -
Nello Iorio
Massimone -
Giuseppina Cervizzi
Giusy -
Rosaria D'Urso
Aunt Rosaria -
Graziella Marina
Luciano?s Mother -
Raffele Ferrante
Enzo -
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Claudia Gerini
Presenter -
Ciro Petrone
Barman -
Salvatore Misticone
Cobbler -
Paola Minaccioni
Roman Client -
Vincenzo Riccio
Vincenzo -
Martina Graziuso
Martina -
Alessandra Scognamil...
Alessandra -
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All Critics (68) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (14)
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.
... works on multiple levels and Arena, who worked within a prison release arrangement while serving a life sentence, creates an indelible, sad character.
Italian satire amusingly sends up our obsession with reality TV, but not in a wholly satisfying way.
It is a brutal, frank, painful and highly meticulous look at an ordinary man undergoing a very modern crisis amidst a very simple life.
Captures the 21st-century affliction of learned discontent, where perfectly happy people go in quest of something they think is better. Reality is a thoughtful, intelligent film.
Part fairy tale, part religious allegory, and part scathing indictment, but the comedy remains light.
Garrone has confounded expectations with this light, Fellini-esque send-up of reality television and the celebrity it has spawned.
A long and meandering satire on FOMO and self-delusion, and a shrewd commentary on the desire for the illusive fame that comes with reality television.
My disappointment comes not just from the fact that the subject matter is soft but from the fact that the film is so thin
The themes involving the confused sense of today's reality hit a note, (but) the film is not funny enough, nor interesting enough to hold our attention for its 116 minute running time
Felliniesque is a term that gets bandied about frequently, but few films actually capture the spirit of the Italian master in his prime. Matteo Garrone's Reality earns its keep without resorting to mere imitation.
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
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