Enea
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2024
May 30 - June 6, 2024
Hereditary privilege gets skewered in Pietro Castellitto’s sophomore feature, about the good-for-nothing son of a television personality and a therapist whose casual forays into drug-dealing intensify beyond his expectations.
Hereditary privilege gets skewered in Pietro Castellitto’s sophomore feature, which he also wrote and stars in. Enea (Pietro Castellitto) is the good-for-nothing son of a television personality (Chiara Noschese) and a therapist (Sergio Castellitto) whose casual forays into drug-dealing—presented as being, for Enea, no different than any number of idle pursuits for the rich and bored—begin to intensify when a Roman crime lord taps him to help with a large cocaine shipment. Blending stylishly rendered social satire with elements of the crime film, Enea is a seductive and aesthetically refined critique of the one percent at their most out-of-touch.
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