original title:
Funeralopolis. A suburban portrait
directed by:
screenplay:
editing:
music:
producer:
production:
K48, Filmnoize
country:
Italy
year:
2017
film run:
94'
format:
colour
release date:
20/09/2018
festivals & awards:
In between Bresso, Sesto San Giovanni and
Milan we dive into the lives of Vash and Felce:
they play music together and shoot heroin, and
they share everything. Their reality sometimes
is brutal, sometimes ironic, tragic and romantic.
Their eternal rebellion neither has a cause, a
reason nor an end.
Vash and Felce grew up in Bresso, between the
football pitches, graffitis, fights, public housing
and occupied apartments.
They have met thanks to rap music, murals
and the common passions for esotericism and
drugs, and they became friends despite their
different life paths (Felce is in his thirties and
has graduated in Architecture, Vash is younger
and dropped school at 14).
They record songs, play gigs, and spend time
between occasional jobs and dealing. They
both come from Bresso, and both share a
dream of escaping from the city. They are
suburban musicians with a random culture and
disorganized friendships.
Funeralopolis doesn’t talk about heroin. It isn’t
an investigation on the effects of addiction. It
doesn’t want to explain or judge or enhance the
lifestyle of its protagonists. It is basically a film
about two friends. Two guys in the quest to
find the meaning of life, until death approaches.
They’re lost in an eternal wander in a city that
seems like a desert, while talking about sex and
religion, doing too much drugs, singing about
decay and violence, dancing between the graves
in the cemetery.