Marco Risi
L'Ultimo Capodanno

THE REVIEW

"Happy New Year and all the best to everyone!", to a humanity adrift, on the brink of the abyss; to a violent, idiotic, indifferent, ignorant humanity in the worst sense of the word, selfish, hypocritical, surreal, and grotesque to the limit of tolerance: to a nauseating humanity, there’s the right term, nauseating.

There is no hope here; there is, however, the desire to observe it all with a sarcastic, ironic, personal, and truly original view.

A very amusing comedy, yet dark as the blackest night, absolutely indefinable, perfectly defined.

Blood ("hectoliters!" as the great Mario Brega would say), perversions, cruelty and madness, horror and everyday horrors and beyond, drugs, psychedelic, psychopathic, and apocalyptic visions, atomic explosions, and more; all in an unstoppable crescendo with a paradoxical and enviable coherence in fitting together the various pieces of the terrifying puzzle until reaching a terrible yet absolutely sensible and perfect conclusion. The only possible one.

The circle opened with the wrecked scooter on the highway will close perfectly. But in a way you could never have imagined... or maybe you could, given the terrifying cards gradually dealt.