Reality

Name: Reality
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 15, 2013
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Aniello Arena, Claudia Gerini, Giuseppina Cervizzi, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone

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Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: March 15, 2013 | R

Starring: Aniello Arena, Claudia Gerini, Giuseppina Cervizzi, Loredana Simioli, Nando Paone, Nello Iorio, Nunzia Schiano, Paola Minaccioni, Raffaele Ferrante, Rosaria D'Urso

Summary: Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger, becomes obsessed with being a contestant on the reality show “Big Brother” leading him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano’s own reality begins to spiral out of control. [Oscilloscope Pictures ]

Director: Matteo Garrone

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min

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Ty Burr

Mar 28, 2013

The movie’s a funny, dark, increasingly razor-sharp inquiry into the metaphysics of modern fame — how the dream of “being seen” and thus validated on some primal level can completely unhinge the average schmo. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Mar 12, 2013

Garrone's film grows in your head afterward, making royal hash out of a cultural paradigm we'll be loath to remember years from now—if, by then, everything hasn't become "reality." Read full review

Robert Abele

Mar 21, 2013

Garrone achieves something uniquely colorful, disturbing and trenchant about self-perception in an increasingly fishbowl-like society. Read full review

Tom Dawson

Mar 15, 2013

The film belongs to Arena, outstanding as a man growing ever more delusional in his quest to acquire celebrity status. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Mar 8, 2013

Spoofing the pernicious effects of television, especially the so-called reality genre, doesn't require pinpoint aim, and at times Luciano seems as much a target of ridicule as the superficial, oversexed entertainment served up on the tube. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Mar 20, 2013

In short, there are moments, in this very uneven film with its lamination of the ancient and the monstrously new, when the spirit of Fellini hovers overhead like a naughty angel. [25 March 2013, p.109]

Eric Hynes

Mar 12, 2013

This vision of contemporary Italy as a warped fairyland filled with corpulent slobs and seedy C-grade celebrities recalls the tough-love spectacle of Fellini’s "La Dolce Vita," but Reality frustratingly devolves into a far more tedious mass-media morality tale. Read full review

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FrancisDG

Jun 4, 2019

Wonderful. Realistic. Surreal. A true good movie. Happy to see it had success.

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