Reality (2013)
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80% of critics liked it
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67% of users liked it
(657 ratings)
From acclaimed director Matteo Garrone, REALITY is a darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome… More From acclaimed director Matteo Garrone, REALITY is a darkly comic look at Luciano, a charming and affable fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, Luciano's own reality begins to spiral out of control, making for one of the most compelling tragicomic character studies since Scorsese's The King of Comedy. (c) Oscilloscope
- Directed By
- Matteo Garrone
- Written By
- Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti, Maurizio Braucci, Massimo Gaudioso
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Mar 15, 2013 Limited
- Studio
- Oscilloscope Laboratories
Critic Reviews
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
The satire here is finespun, and the film's conclusions ambiguous.
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
A dark allegorical comedy about the nature of fame, about obsession, about madness - and the point where they converge: on Big Brother, a TV show watched by millions.
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John Hartl, Seattle Times
For all its ups and downs and occasional detours into boorishness, it's an original that will surprise if not necessarily delight fans of Garrone's very different crime drama, "Gomorrah."
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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Matteo Garrone follows his crime epic Gomorrah with a comedy about reality TV, and though it hardly rivals the earlier movie in its social complexity, it still offers the spectacle of a vibrant and vividly realized Neapolitan neighborhood.
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
As cautionary tales go, this one's ripely knowing, and it speaks in a lot more languages than Italian.
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