Cinema Italian Style: My Killer Buddy
November 10, 2024
In this buddy movie at child height, young Denni is on a mission: to save his mother from his father's violence. But he cannot do it alone, so he engages the skills of a “super-killer,” who only looks like a criminal...and is in desperate need of money.
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Sunday, November 10, 2024
Denni has ten years and a mission to accomplish: to save his mother from the violence of his father. Small as he is, he cannot do it alone. So he decides to ask for help from someone that people kill for a living: a super-killer. The chosen person is Secco, not a criminal but a harmless drifter with a desperate need for money, who pretends to accept the assignment but only to rob Denni’s father. The encounter between Denni and Secco gives rise to an adventure that oscillates between drama and comedy, a buddy movie at child height, poised between fantasy and a reality. Denni and Secco will live an experience that will lead them to question themselves on the meaning of being men, and on fear and the mystery that unites and separates fathers and sons.
- Original Language Title: Io e il secco
- Director: Gianluca Santoni
- Principal Cast: Andrea Lattanzi, Francesco Lombardo, Barbara Ronchi, Andrea Sartoretti, Swamy Rotolo
- Country: Italy, Costa Rica
- Year: 2023
- Running Time: 100 min.
- Producer: Ines Vasiljevic, Stefano Sardo, Danijel Pek, Pilar Saavedra Perrotta
- Screenplay: Gianluca Santoni, Michela Straniero
- Cinematographers: Damjan Radovanović
- Editors: Desideria Rayner
- Music: Dade
- Filmography: Debut Feature Film
- Language: Italian
- International Sales: Minerva Pictures