Midnight Toil: Riso’s Debut Ambient Yet Ultimately Remote Tale of Teenage Woe
You might forget the ‘based on a true story’ warning during the opening credits of Darker Than Midnight (Piu buio di mezzanote) by the time we get to the final frames, as a desolate shriek pierces your memory as you retreat to the theater exit. But, in fact, Sebastian Riso’s technically assured directorial debut is the tale of Davide Cordova’s adolescent woe, otherwise known as the famed drag queen Fuxia of Rome’s historic gay bar, Muccassassina. Set in 1980s Catania, it charts the familial discord and abuse that resulted in his taking to the streets at the onset of his sexual awakening. Certainly providing an aura of threat and menace, Riso’s rendering plays like the set-up to an effective genre entry, but the film eventually plateau’s into a tailspin of instances that...
You might forget the ‘based on a true story’ warning during the opening credits of Darker Than Midnight (Piu buio di mezzanote) by the time we get to the final frames, as a desolate shriek pierces your memory as you retreat to the theater exit. But, in fact, Sebastian Riso’s technically assured directorial debut is the tale of Davide Cordova’s adolescent woe, otherwise known as the famed drag queen Fuxia of Rome’s historic gay bar, Muccassassina. Set in 1980s Catania, it charts the familial discord and abuse that resulted in his taking to the streets at the onset of his sexual awakening. Certainly providing an aura of threat and menace, Riso’s rendering plays like the set-up to an effective genre entry, but the film eventually plateau’s into a tailspin of instances that...
- 6/3/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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