Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.
Direction
Sorrentino's signature visual poetry already fully formed.
Acting
Toni Servillo plays both pathetic and magnetic simultaneously.
Cinematography
Naples as a character — gorgeous, crumbling, unforgiving.
Director
Paolo Sorrentino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Sorrentino's second feature but his breakthrough — Toni Servillo would become his muse in 'Il Divo' and 'The Great Beauty.'
The football storyline mirrors the real decline of Napoli's Serie A dominance post-Maradona era; the crooner plot channels Italian variety show scandals of the berlusconization period.
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