GAS

Constructed like a thriller, Gas takes the viewer into a world that is cruel yet at same time both touching and poetic. From unstable backgrounds, six young people, between twenty and thirty, bonded through their common feelings of disenchantment, are veritable time-bombs, and we see them gradually sink into a moral quagmire. They select a victim and take him into an abandoned building to vent their confused feelings on him through a series of sadistic games. Luca, however is different and he joined the group only recently with a very special purpose: revenge. But why and on whom ......


58° International Locarno Film Festival
DIRECTED BY LUCIANO MELCHIONNA starring Lorenzo Balducci, Francesco Venditti, Moran Atias, Loretta Goggi, Paolo Villaggio, Sandro Giordano, Lina Bernardi
Constructed like a thriller, Gas takes the viewer into a world that is cruel yet at same time both touching and poetic. From unstable backgrounds, six young people, between twenty and thirty, bonded through their common feelings of disenchantment, are veritable time-bombs, and we see them gradually sink into a moral quagmire. They select a victim and take him into an abandoned building to vent their confused feelings on him through a series of sadistic games. Luca, however is different and he joined the group only recently with a very special purpose: revenge. But why and on whom ......	Story & Screenplay Luciano Melchionna Alexandra La Capria Photography Tarek Ben Abdallan Editing Paola Freddi Set Design Alessandro Marrazzo Costumes Alessandro Bentivegna Produced by Massimo Ferrero Blu Cinematografica GF SRL Code 2429 Italy 2005 100 minutes