Luca Guadagnino’s First Feature Was This True-Crime Documentary Starring Tilda Swinton

They planned on finding a pimp or drug dealer, but when they couldnt, they foundMohamed el-Sayed.

The camera wanders away from the interviews, capturing the buildings and pedestrians of London.

“F*** him and the horse he rode in on.”

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The boundaries between their cinematic ambitions and reality blur as they delve deeper into the underworld.

Tilda Swinton stares into the camera, drenched in blood, to recreate a real murder in director Luca Guadagnino’s first film, The Protagonists (1999).

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A creepy scene with a ghoulish man behind a distressed young killer in director Luca Guadagnino’s first film, The Protagonists (1999).

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In Luca Guadagnino’s early work, a film crew from Italy travels to Copenhagen to shoot a documentary about a notorious criminal. The boundaries between their cinematic ambitions and reality blur as they delve deeper into the underworld.

The Protagonists