Venice Review: Niccolo Falsetti’s ‘Margins’
02.09.2022 - 15:13
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“Hey kids, let’s put on a show!” Mickey Rooney’s habitual clarion call to Judy Garland, the starting gun for so many toe-tapping, feel-good Saturday afternoon musicals when both were child stars in the 1930s, has bounced down the years and spread across continents, because who does not love a jolly film about kids putting on a show?
Toe-tapping has gone by the wayside by 2008 in the Tuscan city of Grosseto; the music of choice in Niccolo Falsetti’s Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week entry Margins is optimistically described as “street punk” by the fans and just “very loud” by their long-suffering neighbors. Never mind: essentially, the song remains the same.
Grosseto is the kind of town nobody visits. The kids — not that any of them is still a kid — are Edo, Miche and Iacopo, hardcore devotees with a handful of songs they play in a friend’s isolated barn. Their band is called Wait for Nothing, which suggests they got the name out of an unusually accurate fortune cookie. What they really, really want is to play a proper concert. They would happily play support to a better band, as long there were plenty of heads banging and moshers moshing. So what if they could get the money, a venue and equipment and bring a proper touring band to their town?. Wow, that’s a swell idea, Mickey! I know we can do it!
Falsetti grew up in Grosseto. Now 35, he still plays in the hardcore band he set up at school with Francesco Turbanti, who co-wrote the script for this film and plays Wait for Nothing’s drummer, Miche. Edo (Emanuele Linfatti) is the guitarist. Iac (Matteo Criatini) is the bass player, but his position in the band is increasingly precarious: he is also a classical cellist who has been asked to join a touring orchestra under
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