The Family Friend | |
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Directed by | Paolo Sorrentino |
Produced by | Francesca Cima Fabio Conversi Domenico Procacci Nicola Giuliano |
Written by | Paolo Sorrentino |
Starring | Giacomo Rizzo |
Music by | Teho Teardo |
Cinematography | Luca Bigazzi |
Edited by | Giogiò Franchini |
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102 minutes 110 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The Family Friend (Italian: L'amico di famiglia) is a 2006 Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives 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.