Capsule Review: W Zappatore

by allan tong for FILMbutton

What happens when a 33-year-old guitarist in a Satanic heavy metal band discovers a stigmata on the side of his rib cage? That’s the question that haunts this superb comedy. Not a black comedy, but a deadpan comedy full of droll expressions and long pauses that looks like it walked out of Finland instead of Italy. Marcello takes a personal journey that forces him to choose between God and Rock. His batty mother pulls him one way, while his loony grandma takes him another. There are dry patches in this film and ironically it could use a little more music, but W Zappatore is definitely a funny, droll comedy out of left field.

ICFF Screening Time: June 27, 7:00pm

Allan is a Toronto filmmaker, co-directing Leone Stars, a documentary about child victims of the Sierra Leonean civil war.

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