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The Inner Cage. A prison in the process of being divested. Only a few guards and inmates are still there and they all are waiting to be transferred. A bit at a time, the rules begin to appear...
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Sep 7, 2021 · Toni Servillo ('The Great Beauty') stars in director Leonardo Di Costanzo's third feature, 'The Inner Cage,' about a group of guards and prisoners stuck together in a remote Italian jail.
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills. Not a prison uprising or escape thriller. Instead, it thoughtfully wends its way towards making a poignant statement about how under these extraordinary circumstances, the...
Dec 21, 2023 · Not as far as “The Inner Cage” is concerned, a ponderous prison drama that teeters on the verge of violence right up until one of the inmates gets to cooking.
Most surpisingly, it is not a story of good versus bad, or of oppressors and oppressed, and herein lies the greatest achievement of di Costanzo's work: the true antagonist of the film is the distance imposed by society on the characters, a distance that in this setting becomes extremely thin.
Leonardo Di Costanzo’s slow-burning prison drama “ The Inner Cage ” offers an intimate look at the complex relationships between inmates and their guards. This fictional Italian film focuses more on nuanced character development than fast-paced action.
Sep 5, 2021 · Utilizing the novel opportunity of how power wanes in the crumbling of an institution’s viability, Italian director and documentarian Leonardo di Costanzo presents a quiet microcosm in his third narrative feature, Ariaferma (The Inner Cage).
