"Reality," the chaos of reality

PARIS - The dream loft television Italians to chaos in "Reality", Matteo Garrone's Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival, released Wednesday in room. Neapolitan slice fairly conventional, "Reality" follows a smala modest but joyful, led by a father boastful, fishmonger and entertainer in his time, until he ran for a TV reality show. The "Grande Fratello", a kind of "loft" in Italian, the winner promises wealth provided it supports coexistence with other candidates, all penned under the eye of cameras intrusive. Luciano, who spent the cast heartedly and to please her children, eventually no longer live and survive in the hope of joining. "For many now, the reality that has become the new Eldorado," explained Matteo Garrone in Cannes, speaking of "a fable, a kind of disillusionment." The director, who had already won the 2008 Grand Prix at Cannes for "Gomorra", otherwise more serious and violent, explores another aspect of Italian society. But it is forbidden "for any criticism" against his country: "This story is a fable, a kind of disillusionment." One of the original film is to have a long sentence for inmate principal actor. Aniello Arena in prison for 18 or 19 years (he is serving a life sentence after a bloody settling of accounts), won permission from a judge to join every day shooting, but "no one to come to Cannes , "said Matteo Garrone. Arena began an acting career in 2001 in the prison of Volterra, Province of Pisa, which was founded over 20 years the Compagnia della Fortezza, led by director Armando Punzo which the has since played in many of his pieces. Armando Punzo for, working with him for 11 years, "Arena is a quiet boy." "It is not at all outgoing, not fluff it ... But when it happens on stage, something happens, it is completely transformed. This is an incredibly changing player, he can do everything from Hamlet Alice in Wonderland. " Born in Rome in 1968, Matteo Garrone was first started as an assistant operator before devoting himself entirely to painting. "Gomorra" has brought him international recognition with a series of awards: the Grand Prix at Cannes, as well as six European Film Awards and the Silver Hugo Chicago festival. In 2009 he was nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and to Caesar.