Your doppelgänger just killed himself on live TV—now what?
Vittorio Zemeli is a man of about 60. He lives in an apartment in a grey building in a grey city center in Europe, crossed by a river. At the center of his house he leads a solitary life, with TV on continuously for company. One evening, like many other evenings, Vittorio sees an actor on TV identical to himself, while eating. The TV Victor kills himself. The next day Vittorio is anxious while on the way to work. Three friends surprise him and drag him into a popular restaurant in town for a birthday dinner. But the journey on the way back home will be one he won't forget.
Acting
Carlo Cantore's haunted, passive face doing all the heavy lifting
Direction
Capuano's grey-on-grey visual suffocation of modern Italy
Director
Antonio Capuano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Despite the title nodding to giallo horror, Capuano deliberately subverts the genre—no black-gloved killer, just existential rot.
The film was shot in Turin, the same city where Antonioni's 'Blow-Up' captured alienation decades earlier—Capuano updates that emptiness for the Berlusconi media era.
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