El Paraíso

Italy / 2023
Italian, Spanish; subtitles in English
106 min
Suitable for audiences aged 16 and above
Director: Enrico Maria Artale
Screenplay: Enrico Maria Artale
Cast: Edoardo Pesce, Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Maria del Rosario, Gabriel Montesi, Matea Milinkovic
Production: Matteo Rovere, Andrea Paris, Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis / Ascent Film, Young Films, Rai Cinema
Print Source: Bendita Film Sales
Drama | Film Noir

Screenings

Julio Cesar is almost forty years old and still lives with his mother, a Colombian woman with a compelling personality. The pair of them share practically everything: a little house on the river filled with memories, the small amount of money earned working for a local drug dealer, a passion for evenings of salsa and merengue. An existence on the margins lived with love, at once symbiotic and oppressive, whose precarious equilibrium risks being undermined with the arrival of Ines, a young Colombian who has just made her first journey as a cocaine “mule.” Between desire and jealousy the situation rapidly gets out of hand, to the point where Julio will find himself taking drastic measures, on a painful journey that will take him for the first time to the land of his origins.

La Biennale di Venezia 2023

On 30 August, the screening at Kino Tapiola is an age-restricted alcohol serving screening for individuals aged 18 and above.