Salvo is a 2013 Italian drama film written and directed by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza. It won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Salvo
Directed byFabio Grassadonia
Antonio Piazza
Written byFabio Grassadonia
Antonio Piazza
Produced byMassimo Cristaldi
Fabrizio Mosca
StarringSaleh Bakri
Sara Serraiocco
CinematographyDaniele Ciprì
Edited byDesideria Rayner
Production
companies
Acaba produzioni
Cristaldi Pictures
MACT Productions
Cité Films
arte France Cinéma
Release dates
  • May 16, 2013 (2013-05-16) (Cannes Film Festival)
  • June 27, 2013 (2013-06-27) (Italy)
  • October 16, 2013 (2013-10-16) (France)
Running time
104 minutes
CountriesItaly
France
LanguageItalian
Budget€1,000,000

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Reception

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Salvo has an approval rating of 75% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's critical consensus states: "Stylish and inventive, Salvo parcels out the thrills that genre fans seek while anchoring its story with satisfying, slow-building tension".[2] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3] Italian film critic Paolo Mereghetti described the film as a "symphony in three acts", which "starts as a noir, continues as a poliziottesco and ends as a melodrama".[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Michael Rosser (23 May 2013). "Salvo wins Cannes Critics' Week". Screen Daily. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  2. ^ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salvo
  3. ^ https://www.metacritic.com/movie/salvo?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1c
  4. ^ "Cinema: la Croisette a Milano, da oggi al 19 'Cannes e dintorni'". Libero (in Italian). 16 June 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
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