Shooting Silvio (2006) User Reviews

Awesome

[ginatarantina · 10/10 · 21 September 2022]

The plot revolves around Giovanni (who goes by everyone's name Kurtz after the character in Apocalypse Now played by Marlon Brando) a very rich Roman orphan who spends his days dicking around as a writer, surrounded by people he insists on calling friends but who actually have little to do with him.

The film shows the psychological collapse of an increasingly lonely man, abandoned even by his girlfriend, who ends up blaming Premier Berlusconi for all his misfortunes. Giovanni's only way out: the assassination of Berlusconi himself, an icon and symbol, according to him, of the Italian degradation of the last two decades.

Tragic ending.

The film is exciting: very paranoid and hallucinated like its protagonist, it sails through murky waters made up of loneliness and confusion. A countless number of cameos are worth mentioning: Alessandro Haber in the dual role of notary and "Filipino," journalist Marco Travaglio as himself, the legendary Remo Remoti as a taxi driver, and finally Erlend Oye, the bespectacled Kings of Convenience nerd also playing himself.

The film is certainly interesting and should be rewarded as experimentation.

Intense

[elecrazyblack · 9/10 · 4 October 2022]

Shooting Silvio is a gripping, intense and powerful film that tells the true story of how a group of friends attempted to kill former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Shooting Silvio is an interesting and amusing film about a film crew shooting a movie in Rome. The cast and crew are a motley crew of eccentrics and misfits, and the film is filled with funny and memorable scenes. The story is simple and the plot easy to follow, but the film's underlying themes are complex and interesting. Overall, Shooting Silvio is a fun and entertaining film, I suggest the vision to everyone that is interested in political drama.

Perfect

[gianlucaporcini · 10/10 · 3 October 2022]

Shooting is the story of a young, rich, orphaned, eccentric, centreless man who decides to kill Silvio Berlusconi. At first Kurtz, that's what everyone calls him, has no homicidal ideas. He proposes to the friends he has invited to his house to publish together a collective book on the Prime Minister which, in his intentions, should be an ironic denunciation of the Premier: each of the guests should write a page, each page should contain a way and a reason to annihilate Berlusconi's power. His friends, however, do not listen to him and Kurtz, annoyed by the indifference and lack of trust of his guests, throws them out in a bad way and starts to write the book alone...but he soon decides to change 'course'.

Very nice

[gianlucarossibello · 9/10 · 21 September 2022]

In order to make his film about an imaginary assassination attempt on Silvio Berlusconi when he was still in power (i.e., today...) by a young man fed up with the indifference and apathy of the people around him who do not understand that one must take action, somehow manifest one's estrangement and antagonism to this Italy in double-breasted suits, corporate smiles, and underhanded scheming, Berardo Carboni failed to take advantage of the canonical mechanism of production and distribution of a film in Italy: Fear on the part of those who should/could have subsidized him of repercussions and censorship, given the subject matter? The fact of the matter is that Carboni finds himself organizing a series of producing parties, parties with concerts, DJ sessions and the sale of gadgets, the proceeds of which are completely used for the expenses of making the film. Eventually, thanks to this 'alternative way to cinema,' Shooting Silvio comes out, and nowadays, between festivals and Cineclubs, it is quite easy to manage to see it around Italy. And it is right to see it: above all to defend, reward and support this 'transversal' way of making films in Italy. But also because Shooting Silvio is a good film, beyond its urgency of 'denunciation': Carboni applies to the miniDV, with which he shoots, a whole series of lenses proper to 35mm cinema, and this earns his digital work a whole 'classical composure,' of well constructed shots with an appreciable aesthetic sense, in this black and white with color details that mixes the ever-present cult snippets of Berlusconi's TV appearances with montages of the characters walking around Rome on vespas (them in b/w, the Rome flowing behind their backs in color) while the soundtrack features the now legendary "Mamma Roma, Addio" by poet Remo Remotti (also an actor in the film). Between the grotesque double role of an amused Alessandro Haber, and the appearance of Marco Travaglio as himself who tells the usual anecdote of the Mafia stable boy, the film drags it out a bit but lights up in the last resounding twenty minutes, in color: Kurtz, the young protagonist, infiltrates a convention - real! - of Forza Italia, with his camcorder turned on to film everything, rabid fans and invaded politicians; he kidnaps Berlusconi, in a cartoonish fragment with which Carboni inventively emerges from the 'awkwardness' of the 'action sequence'; finally, the two are in conversation, in a car: the boy, his face painted in the colors of the Italian flag, points an old shotgun at the Honorable, who has his face covered by a rubber mask depicting the very character of Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. A beautiful 'suspenseful' sequence that is by far the best moment of Shooting Silvio.