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THE ITALIAN OF THE ROSES
L'Italien des roses
Synopsis
In a gray city, a young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge of an eight-story building ready to jump into the void. Downstairs beneath him, his family and gradually a whole crowd of indifferent people are waiting for the young man’s to jump.
Synopsis
In a gray city, a young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge of an eight-story building ready to jump into the void. Downstairs beneath him, his family and gradually a whole crowd of indifferent people are waiting for the young man’s to jump.
Our take
Years prior to his painstakingly-detailed miniatures, multifaceted artist Charles Matton already engaged with urban spaces in this offbeat debut, which ditches linearity for an elliptical flashback structure. This evocative choice sees city life in all of its seductive and tragic inconsistencies.