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Forever Mary
- Director: Marco Risi
- Writer: Aurelio Grimaldi
- Producer: Claudio Bonivento
CGiii Comment
There's nothing quite like the heavy-handed approach...
Non-actors playing their delinquent selves...a tired experiment that rarely works...especially when the non-actors outshine the professionals - a tad embarrassing.
It's bog-standard, the non-vocational teacher who finds his vocation when knee-deep in delinquents...
The constant tough-boy posturing is exhausting to watch, the perpetual references to 'dick'...excruciating, as is the shouting...
There is no complexity in the structure or in the characters...not even the drag queen, a wasted opportunity.
A beautifully photographed, perfectly scored insufferable torture.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Cast & Characters
Michele Placido as Marco Terzi;
Claudio Amendola as Pietro;
Francesco Benigno as Natale Sperandeo;
Alessandro Di Sanzo as Mery;
Tony Sperandeo as Turris, guardia carceraria;
Roberto Mariano as Antonio;
Maurizio Prollo as Claudio Catalano;
Filippo Genzardi as Matteo;
Giovanni Alamia;
Alfredo Li Bassi as Carmelo;
Salvatore Termini as Giovanni Trapani, detto 'King Kong';
Gianluca Favilla as Direttore riformatorio;
Giuseppe Giarraffa; Michela Cusano;
Maria Cristina Mastrangeli