in English - Cannes International Film Festival
in English - Cannes International Film Festival
in English - Cannes International Film Festival
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SYNOPSIS<br />
Bankrupt <strong>in</strong> his professional and personal life, Z-grade movie producer<br />
Bruno Bonomo – responsible <strong>in</strong> the past for such evocatively-titled offer<strong>in</strong>gs<br />
as MOCASSIN ASSASSINS and MACISTE VERSUS FREUD – is f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g it impossible to<br />
raise the f<strong>in</strong>ance for his latest project, THE RETURN OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.<br />
Entangled <strong>in</strong> debts and his own weaknesses, struggl<strong>in</strong>g with a capsiz<strong>in</strong>g<br />
marriage and his wayward kids, Bruno is go<strong>in</strong>g under.<br />
By chance, he meets a young director who gives him her script, THE CAIMAN.<br />
At first Bruno takes it for a half-hearted thriller; a more careful - if belated -<br />
read<strong>in</strong>g reveals a film about Berlusconi.<br />
No longer can he stand back. He must set up the production, f<strong>in</strong>d the lead<br />
actor, sort out the f<strong>in</strong>anc<strong>in</strong>g of the film – all the while try<strong>in</strong>g to pick up the<br />
pieces of his broken relationship.<br />
Yet <strong>in</strong> the midst of the endless setbacks and problems, a new spirit is<br />
awakened <strong>in</strong> Bruno Bonomo, and with it, the assertion of his dignity.<br />
This man, washed up as he seemed, f<strong>in</strong>ds with<strong>in</strong> himself the energy to<br />
pursue the project to its end – what came to Bruno as the result of pure<br />
chance has become <strong>in</strong> his eyes a matter of life and death.