Secrets. Betrayal. Murder. Who can you trust when everyone's a suspect? Something sinister is lurking under the surface of 10-year old Michele's idyllic summer. While the days in his remote southern Italian village are filled with the familiar routines of childhood a chance discovery leads to a shocking revelation. Now suddenly beyond the point-of-no-return Michele digs further to find that even his own parents may be involved in a monstrous crime...
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (MEDITERRANEO) masterfully directs this eerie and engrossing suspense thriller involving a 10-year-old boy who lives in rural southern Italy. It is summertime and Michele (Guiseppe Cristiano) is free to spend the long sunny days riding his bike and running through the wheat fields. In fact, the wheat could be considered Michele's costar, as it often consumes the entire scope of the screen showing how Michele plays, hides, and ponders life in the vast expanses of flowing yellow stalks. Because there are only a few other children in the village Michele often plays alone, and one day he discovers a hole in the ground, obscured by wheat, where a boy his age is chained and imprisoned. The boy has clearly been starved and mistreated, yet Michele approaches him fearlessly and attempts to make friends with him. With the dreaminess that is a 10-year-old's truest treasure, Michele doesn't ask too many questions, nor does he draw conclusions about why the boy is in the hole, or who put him there. Through the expressions on young Michele's face, viewers can read his light questioning of human existence, human morality, and human rights. However, as the film draws on, subtly revealing shocking secrets about the adults in Michele's village, the beauty of this utterly simple yet deadly powerful plot come clear. I'M NOT SCARED is a moving film built on crystal clear images of the Italian sun, sky, and wheat fields; strangely offset by its startling loss-of-innocence story.
Coming-of-age drama played out as a menacing suspense thriller, based on the award-winning novel by Niccoló Ammaniti (who also co-wrote the screenplay) and directed by Gabriele Salvatores ('Mediterraneo'). Set in the desolate beauty of the southern Italian countryside in the late 1970s, the story is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano). While out roaming aimlessly across the fields and hills around his village with his schoolfriends in the summer holidays, Michele stumbles upon an unspeakable crime - the discovery of which changes his life, and his relationships with those he loves, irrevocably. The film was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
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