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The Happiness of the Katakuris
Why this pick
A wildly tonal, death-haunted black comedy with a similarly eccentric household, grotesque invention, and a cheerful willingness to turn the macabre into surreal farce.
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MOVIE1994 1h 45m ITA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the cemetery caretaker in the small Italian town of Buffalora. He lives in a ramshackle house on the premises, constantly surrounded by death, with only his Mental retardation assistant Gnaghi (François Hadji-Lazaro) for company. Young punks in town spread gossip that Dellamorte is Erectile dysfunction. His hobbies are reading outdated telephone directories, in which he crosses out the names of the deceased, and trying to assemble a puzzle shaped like a human skull. Gnaghi, whose interests include spaghetti and television, can speak only one word: "Gna."
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Rupert Everett
Francesco Dellamorte
Anna Falchi
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Stefano Masciarelli
Mayor Scanarotti
Mickey Knox
Marshall Straniero