Selfie

[Subtitled] [Plays Feb. 21 at 9:15 p.m. as part of the MSP Film Society's 11th Italian Film Festival of Minneapolis / St. Paul at the St. Anthony on Main Theater; for information, log on to info@mspfilm.org or call 612/331-7563.] Agostino Ferrente's insightful, gritty, fascinating, down-to-Earth, 78-minute, 2019 documentary that follows 16-year-old, Italian bar waiter Alessandro, who is estranged from his father, and his 16-year-old, diabetic, aspiring barber best friend Pietro as they use their smartphones in selfie mode to film themselves in their daily lives in the violent, gang-infested, seaside Traiano neighborhood of Naples during 2017 while reminiscing about teenage friend Davide Bifolco who was mistaken for a fugitive and murdered by cops in 2014 and dreaming about their future, playing pool, shopping, and hanging out.
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