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Why The Confessions: Suicide Or Murder?
Roberto Andò’s multi-lingual “The Confessions” looks at the filthy capitalist side of the world with a sneering disdain and confronts it with suggestive topics such as religion and the supernatural.
As it happened in the political satire “Long Live the Freedom” (2013), the Sicilian filmmaker teams up with the one and only Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”, “Il Divo”), who plays a Carthusian monk turned into the main suspect in the death of the wealthy French economist Daniel Roché (Gerard Depardieu), director of the International Monetary Fund. The tragic incident occurs during a G8 confidential meeting convoked by the president himself, who after a long confession with Father Roberto Salus (Servillo), a man of untrembling faith, is found in
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The procedures take a long and sinuous course because the monk’s mouth is sealed by a strict vow of silence, which increases the mistrust and insecurity among the group.
By itself, the simple convocation of the monk for this meeting is an enigma, but the fact that he was the last person seeing the banker before his death along with a few other relevant details, make him the center of everyone’s attention.
Pushed to the limit to tell what he knows, the mysterious Father Salus becomes the most sought after personality in the hotel for various reasons. While the elusive Italian minister Antonio Varelli (Pierfrancesco Favino), worried about his reputation, agrees to confess his sins to relieve his conscience, other ministers, particularly the ones from the UK and the US, just want to get rid of him since he might be in possession of classified information. From here, we conclude that what they were about to approve wouldn't be beneficial for the world at all but for their pockets and personal interests.
This tense dance between God and the devil, dispossession and financial power, repent and sin, takes almost the shape of one of Agatha Christie’s cases with uncertainty and mysticism


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