The Referee
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2014
June 5 - 12, 2014
U.S. Premiere. Q&A with actor Jacopo Cullin at both screenings.
A third-league Sardinian soccer team goes on a sudden winning streak while conflict erupts over archaic sheep-breeding codes in the lush black-and-white world of Zucca’s utterly distinctive first feature.
U.S. Premiere. Q&A with actor Jacopo Cullin at both screenings.
Sardinian third-league soccer team Atletico Pabarile is suddenly winning every match of the season, after years of losing consistently to Montecrastu, the team led by cocky and abusive landowner Brai. The return of soccer wizard Matzutzi (Jacopo Cullin) from a sojourn in Argentina has turned the team of farmers into unexpected champions—and now it feels like anything is possible. Enter Cruciani (a great Stefano Accorsi), a young referee greedily climbing his way to the top, and two cousins playing for Montecrastu who are involved in an escalating conflict about archaic sheep-breeding codes in Sardinia. These disparate plots come together explosively in the lush black-and-white world of Zucca’s slyly funny and utterly distinctive first feature.
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