One of the breakout hits at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Matteo Garrone’s “Reality” is now — thanks to Oscilloscope – one of the most exciting films of the season (spring, late winter, whatever you want to call it). Following up his grim crime masterpiece “Gomorrah” with an ostensibly lighter story about a fishmonger who desperately wants to be on the Italian version of “Big Brother,” Garrone’s “Reality” is ultimately no less disturbing than any of our own.
After being invited to audition for the “Big Brother” producers at Cinecittá Studios in Rome, the affable Lucíano (Aniello Arena) quickly becomes consumed by his obsession with landing a spot on the show. Before long, Lucíano becomes convinced that every stranger he encounters is a stealth agent from the production, sent to spy on him in order to determine if he’s fit to be cast. What begins as an innocent gamble for a better life soon devolves into a rabbit hole of paranoia and broken dreams, Garrone twisting this potentially conventional story into a moving portrait of a society that has conferred fame as its new religion, no matter the cost.
Also check out: Our Cannes Review of “Reality”
Oscilloscope has provided us with this telling clip from the film, in which Lucíano thinks he’s receiving the big call that will change his life. But his life, we’ll soon learn, can be a little cruel.
“Reality” opens in NYC on March 15, LA on March 22, and will then expand across the country.
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