My Killer Buddy | Io e il Secco
Director | Gianluca Santoni
Presented by PERONI
Ten years old Denni has a mission: to save his mother from his father’s violence. For this reason he devises an infallible plan: he will have him killed by someone who kills people for a living, a super-killer.
2023 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama | Italian with English subtitles
CAST Andrea Lattanzi, Francesco Lombardo, Barbara Ronchi, Swamy Rotolo
Among the rutted tracks, staved-in boats and never-to-be-finished blocks of flats on the coastline of northeastern Italy between Porto Corsini and Cesenatico, industrialist Fabio (Andrea Sartoretti) has been beating his wife Maria (Barbara Ronchi) for years and getting away with it.
Drifting into fantasies of power, their 10-year-old son Denni (Francesco Lombardo) settles on murder-for-hire as the answer to his family’s problems, and approaches Secco (Andrea Lattanzi), a kind-hearted petty thief and failed armed robber whom the local kids have built up in their minds as a ‘super-killer’.
An oddly charming battle of wits and wills between Secco and Denni ensues, with the former hoping to secure the cash for the hit job on Fabio without actually doing it, and the latter immediately suspecting this. Their adventure becomes by turns comical and terrifying.
A quirky yet powerful take on the meaning of fatherhood.
“a wholesome watch that will melt your heart”
Raindance Film Festival