Luciano (Aniello Arena) only looks like an affable fishmonger with a side business running purloined kitchen appliances from a small village near Naples; within him beats the heart of a true Snooki. When, in the new comedy REALITY, he’s called in to audition for a spot on the Italian edition of BIG BROTHER, the siren song of fame so distracts him that he’s soon losing sight of such small details as making a living. Director Matteo Garrone takes the naturalistic intensity he poured into his crime film GOMORRAH and applies it to this sly tale of ambition gone way, way wrong. I got to talk to Garrone about what motivated his move to (adimittedly dark) comedy, what it was like shooting at the legendary Cinecitt
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