Il metodo Garrone: limiti, luoghi e migrazioni nel cinema di Matteo Garrone

The Garrone method: limits, places and migrations in Matteo Garrone’s cinema — This essay focuses on Matteo Garrone’s cinema and his working method. In his first feature films, the Italian director, now one of the most respected authors on the contemporary international cinematic scene, examines places of urban reality, the city periphery and the border space. The urban landscape is one of the leading actors of his films, starting, above all, from the urban margins of Rome, then moving to the north, to Cremona, Vicenza, and then to the south, the territories of Caserta and Naples. Keywords: Italian cinema; Matteo Garrone; urban places; borders; suburbs.