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Enea

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Enea, Aeneas, pursues the myth that his name bears. He does it to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does it in the company of Valentino, a newly christened aviator. Together with the drug dealing and the parties, the two boys share their youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of the rules, on the other side of morality, there’s an ocean of humanity and symbols to discover. Enea and Valentino will soar over it to the furthest extremes. But the drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story that speaks of something else: a melancholy father, a brother who has conflicts at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a world made of glass. It is between the cracks of everyday life that Enea and Valentino’s adventure gradually finds reprieve. An adventure that may seem criminal to others, but which for them is, and will be, above all, one of friendship and love.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) 09/08/2023
4/5
Sergio Castellitto, writes, directs and stars — acing all three categories — in this melancholic Rome-set crime drama that’s “loosely” (very loosely) based on Virgil’s Aeneid. Go to Full Review Guy Lodge Variety 09/05/2023
[A] slickly mounted but stultifying portrait of privilege and ennui among Italy’s silver-spoon set... Go to Full Review Serena Seghedoni Loud and Clear Reviews 10/20/2024
a tragedy, but it's also a snapshot of Rome (and of Italy as a whole) as a place of both violence and poetry, where chaos and irony combine to show us the contradictions that define the human experience, and the mechanisms we put in place to survive. Go to Full Review Q.V. Hough Vague Visages 06/10/2024
“‘Enea’ is full of rich character development, yet the protagonists and antiheroes seem like archetypal figures dropped into a real world setting inhabited by naturalistic side players.” Go to Full Review Stephanie Bunbury Deadline Hollywood Daily 11/16/2023
While the characters vie to make their points, it doesn’t leave a sense of having itself made a point about anything. A blast of sound, fury and meticulously considered framing, Enea isn’t a lasting high. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com 09/05/2023
1/5
In its exploration of aimless youth in an increasingly apathetic world, Enea, perhaps fittingly, feels as hollow as its characters, living empty lives defined solely by a fascination with death. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Pietro Castellitto

Director

Pietro Castellitto

Enea

Benedetta Porcaroli

Eva

Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio

Valentino

Chiara Noschese

Marina

Giorgio Montanini

Oreste Dicembre

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Synopsis Enea, Aeneas, pursues the myth that his name bears. He does it to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does it in the company of Valentino, a newly christened aviator. Together with the drug dealing and the parties, the two boys share their youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of the rules, on the other side of morality, there’s an ocean of humanity and symbols to discover. Enea and Valentino will soar over it to the furthest extremes. But the drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story that speaks of something else: a melancholy father, a brother who has conflicts at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a world made of glass. It is between the cracks of everyday life that Enea and Valentino’s adventure gradually finds reprieve. An adventure that may seem criminal to others, but which for them is, and will be, above all, one of friendship and love.
Director
Pietro Castellitto
Producer
Lorenzo Mieli, Luca Guadagnino
Screenwriter
Pietro Castellitto
Production Co
Frenesy Film, The Apartment, Vision Distribution
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Italian
Runtime
1h 55m