One Man Up
Italian Cinema

One Man Up

L'Uomo in Più
Paolo SorrentinoItaly2001★★★½

Two men share a name — Antonio Pisapia — and nothing else. One is a former footballer, one a singer. Sorrentino follows both as they navigate decline in Naples. His debut feature, and already unmistakably his: the baroque compositions, the melancholy, the interest in men whose best years are behind them. Won the Silver Ribbon for Best Director at Venice. The seeds of everything that follows.

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