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Drive Me Home 2018
1h 34min | Drama | 26 September 2019 (Italy)
Storyline:Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.User review:One of the “buddy study” or male-bonding genre that follows the reunion and subsequent days of two childhood friends from Sicily, Antonio and Agostino, after 15 years of no contact / lost contact. Beginning in Sicily when the two characters were boys, the drama unfolds as the two regain contact. Agostino is a truck driver; Antonio’s life path isn’t easily specified by occupation. Rather, it is specified only briefly, identifying the places he has lived. The commonality among them is a drifting of sorts. The film examines their reunion as Antonio hitches a ride with Agostino on a delivery from Antwerp to Venice, at first uneasy, while we learn about the two boyhood friends and how they come back into each other’s lives. We see them work through the unknowns of how / why their friendship stopped along the road to recovery. Great cinematography in the stunning physical geography, actual footage along the Autobahn, in truck stops, and a ferry terminal (among others), further enhanced by the outstanding and realist acting by the two male leads.
Director: Simone Catania
Writers: Fabio Natale (screenplay), Simone Catania (screenplay)
Stars: Vinicio Marchioni, Marco D’Amore, Jennifer Ulrich
Country: Italy
Language: Italian | English | Dutch | German
Release Date: 26 September 2019 (Italy)
Also Known As: Drive Me Home – Portami a casa
Filming Locations: Belgium
IMDB Profile tt7571726

Drive Me Home (2018)

2019-09-26

6.1

Director: Simone Catania

Writers: Fabio Natale, Simone Catania

Stars: Vinicio Marchioni, Marco D'Amore, Jennifer Ulrich

Summary: Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childho... Read all

Also known as: Drive Me Home (2018) on DVD