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Cinema Made in Italy
The Bone Breakers
105 mins
in Italian with EN subs
ITA | 2022 | dir. Vincenzo Pirrotta, with Vincenzo Pirrotta, Selene Caramazza, Antonino “Ninni” Bruschetta, Luigi Lo Cascio
Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organisation that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.
The sceening will be followed by a Q&A with director and actor Vincenzo Pirrotta