The Family Friend
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
This film feels like a suffocating descent into a lonely man's warped desires. It’s a grim, unsettling character study, heavy with unspoken desperation and a palpable sense of decay. Prepare for a deeply uncomfortable, yet compelling, viewing experience.
