The Goodbye Kiss

The Goodbye Kiss

2006 · 107 min · IT · 6.9 (63 votes)
Dir. Michele Soavi · Starring Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari, Alina Nedelea, Carlo Cecchi, Antonello Fassari · Music Andrea Guerra
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Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls. Wishing to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a dirty cop, getting his sentence reduced in return for ratting former comrades out. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming an upright citizen, but his old police aquaintance keeps dragging him down...

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A grim, character-driven descent into moral decay. It feels like watching a man's desperate, violent attempt to outrun his past, only to find it catching up in the most brutal ways. A bleak, unflinching look at the cost of a compromised life.

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