Paolo Sorrentino's L'amico di famiglia (The Family Friend)

L’amico di famiglia (The Family Friend), the new movie written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino opens in italian cinemas November 10. Presented, to mixed reviews, at the last Cannes Film Festival it is the follow-up to Sorrentino’s brilliant Le conseguenze dell’amore (you can read about it here and here).

L’amico di famiglia is an Italo-French co-production. Fandango, Indigo Film and Medusa Film are co-producing with Babe Films and Studio Canal (in collaboration with CANAL+).

Synopsis:
Geremia de' Geremei is 70. A usurer, ugly, filthy, rich and tight-fisted, cynical and ironic. He has a sick and obsessional relation with everything: his mother, his father, money, women. Life itself. That's why he thinks he's lonely. But in fact he is not alone. They're all like him. We are all like him.

The Dude abides ...

Extended Trailer (streaming Windows Media - not subtitled and in awful quality)

Official Website (where you can download the pressbook in english and french)