Alessio Boni, Michele Placido

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decide...( read more  read more... )s to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a comfortable bourgeois life in his native country. Thanks to Anedda, a corrupt police inspector, and after giving away former comrades, he obtains a reduced jail sentence. Once released from prison he obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way to it is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist and murder...

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Unrated, 107 min.

Directed by: Michele Soavi

Release Date: February 24, 2006

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  • December 8, 2008
    Soavi has finally come back!!
  • August 20, 2008
    Not exactly convincing but not really bad either. The script is way too sterotyped and the camera work too stylish for my taste. In other word it is not the revolutionnary Euro crime movie it pretends to be but it remain quite entertaining.
  • February 20, 2008
    Eclectic, grim, totally nihilistic italian neo noir with some good camera work, twisted voice overs and likable performances by Michele Placido and Alessio Boni, two rotten scoundrels in different sides of the law, who like to rip each other off
  • October 10, 2007
    I just watched Arrivederci amore, ciao and it was rather strange, the way the film plays out is just plain odd. I liked it though, the story has been done a million times but the twists and turns the story took elevated it above others with similar stories. It was rather similar ...( read more)to A History of Violence but to me it had better direction and a far more satisfying ending. The visual flare in the first 40 minutes is amazing, plenty of style and colored gel lighting, then the style regresses somewhat until the last half hour.

    One scene in the film is lifted straight from Mario Bava's Shock, and I mean down to the T, it was identical, not that I'm complaining, being the Bava fanboy that I am it was nice to see... plus this is a far better film than Shock.

    Modern Cronenberg + Bava visuals = This film.

    I still don't understand why big studios don't pick up Soavi instead of using the regular bunch of horror hacks (Zombie, Roth, Bousman etc...)

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