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La partita lenta

Paolo Sorrentino · Italy · Drama / Sports · 11 min · 5.6K views
From the director of The Great Beauty

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino · Starring Monica Dugo, Roberto Bernardini, Renato Gnani, Francesco Iacorossi · 2009

A rugby match on the outskirts of an Italian city becomes an allegory for one family's daily fight against life's hardships.

A rare short from Paolo Sorrentino, blending fiction and reality around a muddy rugby game.

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an italian family against the trials and tribulations of life.

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