Review of Tag (2018) by Mauro L — 15 Dec 2018

A film from another era, the heroic one without cinecomic heroes. If "Le Quatre Cent Coups" by Truffaut (1959) presented itself as a lyric biopic about the difficulties of childhood to which to survive with literature (Balzac) and cinephilia, on the contrary "Tag" shows both the full awareness of today's epochal heeling, an inexorable drift towards aging, nefarious diseases and death, and the only survival strategy so far devised. So it too is a survival movie and a biopic even if the number of real characters has been halved, however the residual half of the cast is excellent, and shows us the only remedy so far decent to the existential disaster: fill the time with a seemingly stupid game that instead serves at least to share with the friendship the meltdown. Monicelli's "Amici miei" ("My Friends")? Geriatric goliard ("zingarata"). Chills for the acoustic cover of "Lake of Fire" by Eric Bachmann.

(Mauro Lanari).