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Perez

Australian Premiere

CAST

  • Luca Zingaretti
  • Marco D'Amore
  • Simona Tabasco
  • Massimiliano Gallo
  • Giampaolo Fabrizio
  • Ivan Castiglione
Italy | 2014 | 94 mins
Crime | Thriller
A thriller that combines Gomorrah and American Noir with a bit of Grisham
La Stampa
DIRECTOR Edoardo De Angelis

De Angelis discovered his love for cinema at the age of 19. Considered a visionary director, he has worked on many short films screened all across the world. His very first feature film Mozarella Stories (2011) has a class named after it at the City University of New York. In 2014, De Angelis directed his second feature film Perez.

Much-loved actor Luca Zingaretti (Inspector Montalbano) gets the final word in the hardboiled and gritty Perez, as he plays the titular character Demetrio Perez, a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

Director Edoardo De Angelis shows us an urban wasteland, hiding an underbelly of organised crime through the filtered lens of the justice system, and uses Zingaretti perfectly to capture the fatigue and exhaustion such a system brings before it all comes undone.

Luca Zingaretti is a guest of the festival in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

  • Winner
    • Best Actor - Italian Golden Globes 2015
    Offical Selection
    • Out of Compeition - Venice Biennale 2014
    • Highlights - Italian Contemporary Film Festival Canada 2015
All non-English films screen with English subtitles.

Sessions & Buy Tickets

Melbourne

PALACE WESTGARTH

KINO CINEMAS

PALACE BRIGHTON BAY

PALACE BALWYN

THE ASTOR THEATRE

  • Sold Out
Wednesday 23 Sep 8:00pm Introduction by Luca Zingaretti

PALACE CINEMA COMO

  • Sold Out
Thursday 24 Sep 6:45pm Q&A with Luca Zingaretti
Sydney

CHAUVEL CINEMA

PALACE VERONA

PALACE NORTON STREET

  • Sold Out
Sunday 20 Sep 4:45pm Q&A with Luca Zingaretti
  • Extra Session
Sunday 20 Sep 5:45pm Q&A with Luca Zingaretti
Byron Bay

PALACE BYRON BAY

Canberra

PALACE ELECTRIC

Adelaide

PALACE NOVA EASTEND CINEMAS

Brisbane

PALACE CENTRO

PALACE BARRACKS

Hobart

STATE CINEMA