Recensioni del film "Ormai è fatta!"

"May I rob you, please?" Outlaw! tells the tale of a gentleman bandit

Outlaw! dir. Enzo Monteleone, 1999. N/R, 95 mins. in Italian, with subtitles. Stefano Accorsi, Emilio Solfrizzi, Giovanni Esposito, Fabrizia Sacchi.

Horst Fantazzini (Accorsi) is the sort of engaging, likable soul who shares pictures of his family with bank tellers. As he does so in the opening moments of Outlaw!, however, he is also robbing a bank, and before the opening credits are over, Fantazzini,a real-life "gentleman bandit" from whose memoirs the movie is adapted, has been sentenced to a 22-years prison stretch for a string of bloodless Italian bank robberies committed in the early 1970s.
Desperate to be reunited with his wife (Sacchi) and child, Fantazzini uses a real gun for the first time in an attempted prison escape. Unfortunately, almost everything goes wrong, and in short order, he finds himself barricaded in the warden's office with two guards as his prisoners and three others on the way to the hospital.
Director Monteleone reenacts the hostage drama that follows in a style that unevenly evokes the self-conscious audacity of the best of American 70s filmmaking. His wide-screen camera either sturters through the escalating conflicts in the handheld thrusts or obliquely paces away from the action, adding objectivity andirony to each character's predicament. The sensitively textured script turns a compassionate yet unblinking eye on captor, hostages and would be rescuers alike.
"How could you do this to me?" demands the indignant warden, plucked from his seaside vacation to negotiate with Fantazzini. Somehow, despite the gravity of drawns guns and a ticking clock, it seems like a legitimate question.
This borderline absurdity invites comparison less to the quintessential '70s hostage d