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Carlo Colnaghi, a severely looking performer, plays Carlo, a middle-aged, out-of work actor, in and out of psychiatric hospitals. Living on welfare, but still dreaming of better life and career, Carlo plans a grand comeback with a new, highly personal monologue. Carlo’s frustrations as an actor who has not performed for a decade and horrible living conditions manifest themselves in bouts of anger, hostility, and self-inflicting suffering.

Monotonous monodrama is somehow enlivened by a strange relationship that Carlo develops with Sara, a wealthy Jewish curator who works in a museum. Indeed, Sara’s friends can’t understand what she is doing with the eccentric, disturbingly volatile Carlo. —Emanuellevy.com