The Mouth of the Wolf
La bocca del lupo
Synopsis
The romance between a tough Sicilian guy and a transsexual former junkie whom he met in prison is interwoven with a poetic reverie of the port town of Genoa, depicted in all its mysterious, fading glory, in a combination of documentary, fiction and melancholy home movies from the past century.
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Awards & Festivals
Berlin International Film Festival
2010 | 2 wins including: Teddy: Best Documentary (Forum)
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
2010 | 2 wins including: Special Jury Prize (International Competition)
Critics reviews
Marcello’s subjects, places, and elicited memories bare the temporal distances—decades, centuries—standing between them. This is nowhere more apparent than in Marcello’s whatzit essay film, The Mouth of the Wolf, which, if no longer his best film, still stands as his most aesthetically and structurally complex work.
Blake Williams
September 05, 2015
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