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Romanzo Criminale

13 replies

limitedperiodonly · 05/12/2011 13:47

Anyone else watch this? I love it.

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Akiko · 08/12/2011 16:16

I Love it too! The best series this year (appart from the Killing). I am surprised that noone had commented on it. Masterfully shot, great plot, handsome criminals, beautiful women! I cannot wait for the next episode!

limitedperiodonly · 08/12/2011 16:44

I was worried it was just me! Everything you said.

They are brutal but I can't help liking them.

For me, Libanese swings between being brutally attractive and looking like the missing link between humans and apes.

My favourite is Freddo - at first because he was the best-looking one and now because he seems a bit more principled and with some kind of plan to get out with his money before he gets killed.

I love the one liners, like when Freddo or Libanese say in all seriousness to Dandi: 'look, you can't just keep putting people in hospital.'

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anonacfr · 08/12/2011 19:49

Is the gorgeous Kim Rossi Stuart in the series? He was in the film.

Akiko · 09/12/2011 15:10

I didn't know there was a film???
Yes, Fredo, there is some kind of 'humanity' in him.
O, I forgot to mention how good the art direction is: the 70's style is so appealing to me for the first time since my youth, and do the characters look like coming out of a wonderfully rich reneissance painting (or is it just my fascination with all things italian)?

Clayhead · 09/12/2011 15:56

Loving this, best thing on all week.

limitedperiodonly · 09/12/2011 16:41

It is so Italian, that sounds stupid, obviously it is, but what I mean is in the attitudes to things like clothes and parking - just point it at the kerb, get out, who cares if you're holding up the traffic.

I go to Rome a lot and it's reminded me of just how much of it is still stuck in the '70s like their Snack Bar HQ and the other tacky signs over small cafes and shops.

I keep pointing out to my sister all the things I recognise like a huge white brutal/classical stone building between the city and the airport which my friend says was built by Mussolini but he's not sure what for. You could see it in the background in the shots of Libanese's caravan before he set fire to it.

I was quite disappointed when that happened because it robbed me of the chance to shout: 'I know where that is,' every single time it came into shot.

And the fish restaurant on the coast where Libanese's girlfriend worked. I kept saying: 'I've been to that town. I recognise those rocks' or 'I know where that is. It's opposite the Pantheon.'

Luckily she loves it as much as me Grin

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Clayhead · 09/12/2011 17:41

Did you think the fish restaurant was Ostia or somewhere else?

limitedperiodonly · 09/12/2011 18:12

Our friends live in either Ostia or Fiumicino or maybe they're so close they don't make any difference.

The restaurant they always take us to is about five minutes' drive from their house. There are four or five others and a fish market in the same place.

It mysteriously burned to the ground a few years ago but has been rebuilt. No idea what happened but it's a bit Romanzo Criminale Wink

I really like it. Not fancy but lovely fish and seafood. Depending on traffic it's 30 minutes to 3hrs from Rome city centre Confused. Sundays are a very bad idea because everyone goes to and from the coast or the airport. Weekdays are better if you fancy a trip in a taxi.

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Clayhead · 21/12/2011 20:11

Last night's episode was a good'un.

Anyone know when series two will start?

Freddo Smile [wish there was a tongue hanging out and dribbling smiley...]

GothAnneGeddes · 22/12/2011 02:43

I bloody love this! Also surprised it's not been a bigger hit because it's fantastic.

anon- The lush KRS isn't in it, but the cast are rather fine.

Agree that Libano, has got two faces, would love to see the actor in something else.

As for Freddo, yum.

I even think Scaloja has something about him...

I watched Il Divo at the weekend too, which features a lot of the same events.

limitedperiodonly · 22/12/2011 08:52

Is there another series? I was depressed because thought it was all finished.

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Francagoestohollywood · 22/12/2011 09:04

Oh wow, I am impressed that they are showing Romanzo Criminale on British tv!

Series 2 was aired here (Italy) a good few months ago, I believe, so it might get there soon.

In the meantime you can watch the movie, here, with Kim Rossi Stuart (who is not in the series), Pier Francesco Favino and a very young Riccardo Scamarcio (il Nero)...

GothAnneGeddes · 24/12/2011 01:24

Franca - Was the tv series v popular in Italy and are the actors in it famous now, or were they already well known?

Also, considering how controversial the subject matter is, what was the reaction to it in Italy? Hope you don't mind the questions.

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