“I feel like there’s a sort of mouth over the city, ready to eat us up,” says Enea, sophisticated young nightclubber, tennis champion and coke dealer; if anyone is trying to swallow the Eternal City ...

Directing himself as the aimless criminal scion of an elite Roman family, the actor-turned-filmmaker gives us some snazzy cod-Sorrentino set pieces, but no reason to care. As the son of veteran ...

The writer-director leads a populous ensemble that includes his father, Sergio Castellitto, in a study of generational privilege and emptiness produced by Luca Guadagnino. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Director Stefano Lodovichi’s The Big Fake is an acquired taste, but it is also a tactless and flavourless film. The crime drama follows three friends who go to Rome and occupy different positions that ...

Cineuropa: Enea is a family story, it’s a love story, it’s a crime story. It feels like you really didn’t want to limit yourself this time? Pietro Castellitto: I feel that a film is always an ...

Italian hotshot Pietro Castellitto is in competition in Venice with his second feature “Enea,” in which he also stars as the titular character, a young Roman sushi restaurant owner and cocaine dealer ...

About 20 minutes pass in “Enea” before someone asks the young, handsome, splendidly attired title character what he does for a living, during which time audiences are likely to be wondering the same ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your staying power with Pietro Castellitto’s genre-adjacent non-thriller Enea will depend on your appetite for well-heeled Romans ...