Ragazzaccio

Ragazzaccio
Ragazzaccio
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Directed by	Paolo Ruffini (actor)
Written by	Paolo Ruffini (actor)
Produced by	Santo Versace; Gianluca Curti; Paolo Ruffini (actor); Nicola Nocella
Starring	Beppe Fiorello; Massimo Ghini; Sabrina Impacciatore; Alessandro Bisegna; Jenny De Nucci;
Cinematography	Tani Canevari
Edited by	Claudio Di Mauro; Carlo Balestrieri
Music by	Claudia Campolongo; Gianluca Sambataro
Production; companies	Vera Film; Minerva Pictures
Distributed by	Adler Entertainment
Release date	2022;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Ragazzaccio (lit. 'Bad Boy') is a 2022 Italian

drama film directed by Paolo Ruffini.^[1]

The film is produced by Vera Film with Minerva Pictures, Simone Valenza and the National Association of Technological Addictions Di.Te. by Giuseppe Lavenia.[2]

Plot

Mattia Silvetti is an 18-year-old who intolerant of rules. He attends

high school and is once again at risk of flunking out because of his attitude in class, which often leads to him being thrown out. In his mind, the nightmare of flunking out is heavier than the pandemic that is going to stall Italy

.

In March 2020, the

nurse forced to work exhausting shifts at the hospital

. Mattia finds himself locked in the silence of his room between video calls and distance learning lessons in which he continues to play bully pranks on teachers and classmates.

In this situation Mattia discovers love. He does so by getting to know Lucia, the school representative of the high school next to his school, through social networks. He also learns love and self-respect thanks to the interest of Professor Roncucci, who offers to give him private tuition: 'If you study, you become better, you live better, you fall in love better', he tells him.

Once he discovers that his mother is having an extramarital affair, he also rediscovers love for his parents: for his father, who falls ill with Covid during hospital shifts, and for his mother, who lives crushed between her hypochondria and forced cohabitation.

One morning Mattia commits an act of

disabled classmate. At that moment he hits rock bottom and manages to climb back up thanks to the power of love that makes him want to grow deeper. Despite a three-week suspension against him, that is synonymous with flunking out, the Italian Government decides to promote all students forced forced to take classes from home by the health emergency. At the end of the school year, it will be he himself, in a letter to the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella

, who will ask to be flunked, asking to be able to relive with greater awareness a year that was fundamental to his growth.