Don’t Be Bad (Non essere cattivo) by Claudio Caligari and starring Luca Marinelli
2015, 100 min. In Italian with English subtitles
from Friday, March 26 at 1pm CT through
Sunday, March 28 at 1pm CT
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present to continue its series of contemporary Italian films starring Luca, best actor award at Venice Film Festival 2019 for “Martin Eden.”
A gritty, hard-hitting crime saga set in Ostia in the 1990s. Best friends Cesare (Luca Marinelli) and Vittorio (Alessandro Borghi) are petty drug dealers whose favorite pastimes are getting high and drinking themselves into oblivion. But when Vittorio endeavors to turn his life around, the self-destructive Cesare spirals further downward. Submitted as Italy’s candidate for the 2015 Best Foreign Language Oscar, Don’t Be Bad evocatively captures the cocaine-fueled, neon-nightclub highs and the grim, morning-after lows of life in the fast lane.
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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