the rest of the night

down and out in turin...



silvana (sandra ceccarelli) and giovanni boarin (aurelien recoing) are an upper middle-class couple who live in the hills outside turin; when they suspect that their romanian housemaid, marja (laura vasiliu), has stolen a pair of silvana's earrings, they fire her. victor (victor cosma) is a romanian immigrant who has teamed up with marco (stefano cassetti), a native of turin whose life of crime and drug abuse means his wife and child have left him; the pair are involved in small time criminality. with marja being turfed out of the boarin household, she returns to the arms of her ex-lover, victor, despite her past reservations about the company that he keeps...

well, despite being a well acted, well shot and, generally, well executed production, 'the rest of the night' is just a bit too flat and predictable in its narrative. the film, in its attempts to show the troubles that immigrants face and contribute to, in a city such as turin, the vast majority of its characters and narrative arc are a by the numbers. still, sandra ceccarelli is rather super in her role and stefano cassetti, puts in another solid 'roberto succo'-esque performance as a nut-job.

reasonable, but nothing more...