5/17/2023 0 Comments Edouard philipponnatAldo brings up Maurizio and Patrizia’s marriage, with Rodolfo feeling he and his son are done, but Aldo tells him that he will end up old and lonely if he doesn’t make up with him. The two are later married, and the news is caught by Maurizio’s uncle Aldo (Al Pacino).Īldo visits Rodolfo about expanding the Gucci brand into malls, but Rodolfo refuses. At one point, he and Patrizia have sex in her father’s office. Maurizio begins working at the company and genuinely enjoys the labor. He informs them that he has decided to leave his family and money behind in order to make an honest living working for their business until he can marry Patrizia. Maurizio shows up at the Reggiani house to speak to Patrizia’s parents. Despite all this, Maurizio defends Patrizia and tells his father that he loves her. It was Rodolfo who hired Franco to follow them, which is how he learned more about Patrizia’s background. Rodolfo later tells Maurizio that he doesn’t trust Patrizia, seeing her as just another social climber who wants his money. The subject changes to Rodolfo saying he used to be an actor, which is how he met Maurizio’s mother. They have lunch together, where Rodolfo appears to look down on Patrizia’s work in her family’s business. The Runner is available on digital platforms on 18 November.Maurizio invites Patrizia to meet his father, Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons). And the nervy Philipponnat impresses, crawling out of his own stupor into the bracing air of self-confrontation. Danner’s background as an acting coach shows, with Douglas offering a terse worldliness more reminiscent of Matt Dillon than his own acting clan. Still, rooted thoroughly in its protagonist’s introspection, The Runner makes up for what it lacks in thriller pacing with an ambitious depth of fraughtness. Sad, lank-haired Aiden driving away from a car park rendezvous with Wall alternates with blissful Aiden idling under a tree with Layla. When it comes to excavating what is under this pristine surface, director Michelle Danner leans on a heavy-handed flashback structure that is over-eager to answer questions about Aiden as soon as they come up, rather than harbouring them for extra tension. “It’s just amazing – you feel bulletproof,” he replies, ODing on boredom. “What’s it like, having so much?” asks Aiden’s girlfriend (Jessica Amlee). This vale of elegantly wasted youth and cynical law enforcement has a jaded Bret Easton Ellis air lingering around it. But Aiden starts to disintegrate under the stress, compulsively reminiscing back to his own Ophelia, doomed first love Layla (Kerri Medders). Aiden steers his partner Blake (Nadji Jeter) into inviting the kingpin (Eric Balfour) to the epic party he’s throwing at his mother’s high-spec townhouse, where he has to wear a wire. Gilded high-schooler Aiden (Philipponnat) is busted by the no-nonsense Detective Wall (Douglas), who releases him on the proviso he helps take down a local big-shot dealer. It plays a bit like Hamlet, if Hamlet was constantly bumping coke and hawking every substance going around. But, befitting his newly sober and reformed status, Douglas takes the paternal cop role in The Runner, while French-Finnish actor Edouard Philipponnat (soon to be seen in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon) is a teenage drug-dealing screwup both give robust performances in this deeply felt but somewhat cumbersome thriller. A high-society princeling trying to drown inner demons with drugs by the bucketload: it could have been a role written specifically for Cameron Douglas, son of Michael.
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