How well do we really know ourselves when we make a decision? What if there were multiple versions of ourselves, each with its own opinion? FolleMente is a delightful romantic comedy that goes beyond appearances, diving into the minds of the two main characters, Piero and Lara, and revealing their most hidden thoughts and the inner battles that we all face.
“gets right everything that other films get wrong” – Wired
Top local film at the Italian box office during first two weeks of release!
Sicily, early 2000s. After serving several years in prison for Mafia-related crimes, Catello, a long-serving politician, has lost everything. When the Italian Secret Service “persuades” him to help capture Matteo, the last major Mafia boss still on the run, whom Catello has known since he was a boy, he sees an opportunity to stage a comeback. A shrewd man of a hundred masks, a tireless illusionist who turns truth into falsehood and falsehood into truth, Catello begins a correspondence with the fugitive, as unique as it is improbable, exploiting the younger man’s emotional emptiness. A gamble which, with one of the most wanted criminals in the world, is always going to involve a degree of risk…
“Servillo is impressive as this slippery, slightly ridiculous but sharp-witted man. Germano is authentically dangerous as the big shot in hiding” – Screen International
Love. Fear.
Can the threat of a secret being revealed make you live as an honest man? Based on the novel by Domenico Starnone, CONFIDENZA (TRUST) is a thriller of the soul, telling us how love and fear can affect our lives forever.
Original score by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke
“A film which forces you to think, doubt and hypothesize” – The Hollywood Reporter