by Jonathan Crow
synopsis
Italian director Marco Risi directs this ensemble farce about a series of separate mishaps around a luxurious apartment complex. On New Year's Eve, at the edge of Rome, there is a traffic accident, followed by a soccer team crashing a high-brow ball. Three Mafioso rob a trussed up masochist, and a pair of druggies whacked out on low-grade paint throw dynamite in the heating system. All of these events culminate in one gigantic finale. Kaputt Mundi was screened at the 1999 Mill Valley Film Festival.
characteristics
- Mob
- Mafia
- Nitroglycerin
- Team
- Yakuza
- Apartment
- Gang
- Car-crash
- Ball [dance]
- Dynamite
- Explosion
- Explosives
