What if your first favor for your new girlfriend turned into a corpse disposal marathon?
Right after she moves in with him, Frederico's new girlfriend Francesca sends him back to her former boyfriend's apartment to fetch her something she forgot - but he's surprised to find him lying there - dead. Assuming that Francesca killed him and sent him for cleaning up, he cuts him up in pieces, puts him in a suitcase and tries to get rid of it... but he has a hard time finding a suitably quiet place. Unfortunately there's a witness, who comes back on him. One thing leads to another, and the normally shy and overly fearful Frederico has to rid himself of more and more corpses until this black comedy ends.
Acting
Castellitto's masterpiece of escalating nervous breakdown
Writing
Each corpse logically demands the next — brutal mathematics
Direction
Soldi's neo-noir Milan feels genuinely threatening and absurd
Director
Giancarlo Soldi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Italy's early '90s indie boom when state TV funding collapsed and filmmakers embraced grungy neo-noir over glossy commedia all'italiana.
Hugo Pratt, legendary Corto Maltese creator, reportedly drew storyboards for his own scenes — the only time the comics master storyboarded live-action.
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