Reality (2012) on Netflix
Luciano, a Neapolitan fish merchant, gets by on small scams and loves an audience. His family urges him to try out for Grande Fratello, so he travels to Rome to audition.
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- Rotten Tomatoes80%
Trailer
Plot summary
In Naples, Luciano earns a living selling fish and adds to it with small scams he runs with his wife Maria. In front of customers and relatives he is always ready to perform. Grande Fratello, the Italian version of Big Brother, is the show his whole world follows, and he is its most devoted viewer. After a wedding in the family, the people around him decide he should audition for the program and he agrees. He travels to Cinecittà in Rome, where a committee finds him pleasant and an assistant director tells him he will be contacted if he is selected. Luciano goes home to his neighborhood and waits.
Cast
- Vittorio Russoas Proprietario del bar
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Reality (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Aniello Arena, who plays the protagonist of Reality, is a convicted former Camorra member who has served life in prison for murder since 1991. Matteo Garrone discovered him in a play staged by Volterra prison inmates and, after being refused permission to cast him in Gomorrah, insisted on him for this film.
- After the acclaim of Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone wanted a change and decided to make a comedy. Drawn from a true story, Reality developed into a darker film than planned, and Garrone doubts the finished version can be called a comedy.
