Film Shapes

This was part of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival  and I caught it at the Luna Leederville last Saturday. It'd been quite a while since I'd been to that cinema but it hasn't changed a hell of a lot. Wide, fairly flat auditorium with a small screen and 'the best choc bombs in town' (with TM and thanks to Merv). Suburra was apparently the name for a suburb of ancient Rome, a crowded, red-light district. An apt name for this film as it throws together dirty politicians, junkies, mafiosi and even the papacy in a massive shit-fight. It's basically a rainy, modern-day Westeros with Sofia Coppola DJ-ing. The film places events around the time of the (fictional) Pope's resignation and one of many moments of turbulence in the Italian parliament (there's even a bunga-bunga episode that advances the plot). A waterfront land bill is moving ahead at the behest of 'the Southern families' and mafia money is greasing the political wheels...