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The Ark of Disperata

2017 · 110 min

A gentle, bittersweet comedy about unlikely friendship and small-town melancholy, with a warm humanistic touch.

Directed by
Edoardo Winspeare
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Antonio Carluccio, Gustavo Caputo, Celeste Casciaro
Overview
At Disperata, a small town in Southern Italy, the melancholy mayor Filippo Pisanelli feels terribly unfit for his role. Only a love of poetry and his passion for the literature lessons he gives to prison inmates admit a chink of light into his general state of depression. In jail he meets Pati, a small-time criminal from his own town. Pati and his brother Angiolino were dreaming of becoming the mafia bosses of Capo di Leuca, but the encounter with art changes everything and an unusual friendship between the three men will lead them to make courageous choices.

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Directed by
Edoardo Winspeare
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Antonio Carluccio, Gustavo Caputo, Celeste Casciaro
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • redemption
  • identity
  • isolation
  • art
Places
  • small town
  • prison
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour5
Realism7
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Edoardo Winspeare
Written by
Alessandro Valenti, Edoardo Winspeare
Starring
Antonio Carluccio, Gustavo Caputo, Celeste Casciaro, Davide Riso, Claudio Giangreco, Alessandra De Luca, Francesco Ferrante, Antonio Pennarella
Music
Mirko Lodedo
Cinematography
Giorgio Giannoccaro
Runtime
110 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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