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The Family Friend

2006 · 102 min

A queasy, slow crawl into a repellent man's world, by turns grotesque and oddly beautiful, leaving a sour taste.

Overview: Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
How it feels: Dark, cynical, satirical and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Greed, obsession, isolation, deception
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
cynicalstrength 3 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: greed
obsession
isolation
deception
power
Places: small town
home
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong