Umberto Merone

Umberto Merone

Favorite films

  • La Notte
  • Play It Again, Sam
  • Hazard
  • The Tenant

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  • Mickey 17

    ★★★

  • The Substance

    ★★★★½

  • Nosferatu

    ★★★★½

  • No Dogs or Italians Allowed

    ★★½

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  • Dream Scenario

    Dream Scenario

    ★★★★

    When Conrad wrote, "We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, life continues painfully," perhaps he hadn't yet seen Dream Scenario. In the film where Nicholas Cage portrays an older, out-of-shape Freddy Krueger, dreams become a stage—an infinite space connecting everyone rather than isolating personal experiences, traumas, and fears. It's a meeting point with a recognizable face.

    Dreams become reality when shared by many, finding a key to interpretation. For Paul, the dream seems to reflect the…

  • Saltburn

    Saltburn

    ★★★★½

    The rhetoric of man eating man, or in this case, man devouring the divine. Saltburn manages to carve a place in the Olympus of films addressing social differences unequivocally. We love the rich, and that's why we despise them.

    It's an almost anti-Shakespearean fable, an anti-hero one can't empathize with, yet, in the end, proves to be so chameleon-like, so schizophrenically precise, that credit cannot be denied. Saltburn is the tale of bloodright akin to nobility and what one is…

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