The Alligator (L’Alligatore) is an unusual TV crime series from Italy. The title is the nickname of our protagonist, Marco (Matteo Martari), a former blues singer fresh from seven years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He and idealistic cohort Max (Gianluca Gobbi), while covertly investigating corporate polluters, accidentally witness a bigger crime, causing him to be framed by some complicit cops, and tortured for refusing to ID Max as the other one who saw them.
All Marco wants is to drink as much Calvados as his system will tolerate and reconnect with his girlfriend, Greta (Valeria Solarino), a sultry club singer. But she’s apparently moved on, and so must he. Marco finds himself entangled in new challenges. His reputation from prison as a resourceful peacemaker leads an attorney to hire him to locate a former inmate client who has disappeared. That leads to a two-episode...
All Marco wants is to drink as much Calvados as his system will tolerate and reconnect with his girlfriend, Greta (Valeria Solarino), a sultry club singer. But she’s apparently moved on, and so must he. Marco finds himself entangled in new challenges. His reputation from prison as a resourceful peacemaker leads an attorney to hire him to locate a former inmate client who has disappeared. That leads to a two-episode...
- 9/12/2022
- by Mark Glass
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango shingle is developing Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults” for Netflix, has several new films in the pipeline, including chiller “Pantafa” toplining Kasia Smutniak (“Devils”) as a strong-willed mother trying to protect her haunted young daughter.
“Pantafa,” which takes its cue from an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has just ended principal photography. Pic is directed by Emanuele Scaringi, who has long worked with Fandango in various guises: as writer, creative producer (“Bangla”), and director of graphic novel adaptation “The Armadillo’s Prophecy,” Scaringi’s feature film debut that went to Venice. He also directed TV crime series “L’Alligatore” for Rai.
“Fandango has never made a horror film in 30 years [of our existence] because I’m personally neither a big fan [of this genre] nor an expert,” Procacci tells Variety. But Scarigni “really believed in this project, so I went with it,...
“Pantafa,” which takes its cue from an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has just ended principal photography. Pic is directed by Emanuele Scaringi, who has long worked with Fandango in various guises: as writer, creative producer (“Bangla”), and director of graphic novel adaptation “The Armadillo’s Prophecy,” Scaringi’s feature film debut that went to Venice. He also directed TV crime series “L’Alligatore” for Rai.
“Fandango has never made a horror film in 30 years [of our existence] because I’m personally neither a big fan [of this genre] nor an expert,” Procacci tells Variety. But Scarigni “really believed in this project, so I went with it,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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