After 20 years of honest film career, Fabio De Luigi has decided to dare, wearing the clothes of the protagonist, screenwriter and director of tiramisu. A debut behind the camera obviously built entirely on him, having also thought about the subject and put his hand to the script, thus ending up with the wrong doses, so as to present a sweet comedy format with little taste and a bitter aftertaste.
De Luigi is Antonio Moscati, a decidedly unsatisfied salesman of pharmaceutical products. Not to mention failed. Every morning he visits the health insurance doctors who don't give a damn about his bandages and gauze, because in search of those medicines that the boss really doesn't want to entrust to him, poor Antonio. At his side, however, fortunately stands out a sweet and in one piece woman, Aurora, an elementary school teacher who has a secret recipe that she can serve to her husband's friends and clients. The tiramisu. The best in the world, many say, so much so that he became a real 'picklock' to get Antonio into the good graces of doctors and important personalities, effectively leading him to climb the Lazio and national health system. A sudden and overwhelming success that transforms Antonio into a man so new, different, cynical and arrogant from removing his beloved Aurora, fleeing her immoral wealth.
A damned imperfect comedy, the one made by De Luigi who slipped heavily on a mistaken and tendentially arrogant belief: that of being able to make a film all by himself. A single pen, for a single point of view, which ranges between the myth of success to weaken, a broken couple to save, a corrupt and corruptible society to denounce, political dishonesty to point out and a surreal happy ending to serve. Ingredients you want or you don't want, made edible by a De Luigi in great shape, who goes out of his way to elicit a smile and recitative speaking good protagonist of a film sunk by some questionable casting choices.
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u all the one who sees an unbearable Hard Angel co-showrunner. His Franco, 30-year-old brother of the ethereal Aurora with dependent daughter, ex-wife and model-girlfriends to change as if they were underpants in the morning, is an odious character, who hires only homosexual shop assistants because they are childless and unable to get married, to be tracked down subjecting them to a test on Raffaella Carrà. Cynical and contemptuous but in an annoying way, because most of the time gratuitous and forced, Duro weighs down a title that is already fluctuating in the evolution of the plot. De Luigi, and here we reiterate the decisive absence of a co-writer, runs quickly in the saddle of his story that oozes clichés and writing turns seen and reviewed.
The ethically upright old pediatrician, played here by a philosophising Pippo Franco, and the young ambitious doctor who is easily corruptible; the hot colleague who will derail the protagonist and the romaniaccio friend called to elicit laughter as he is chronically depressed; the transformation of the funny soul of De Luigi from scruffy but kind to elegant, immoral and arrogant causes a climb to success. Steps that make their way with too much impetuosity and little credibility, sowing gags that are often not too successful and side comic characters thrown into the fray without real logic. The socio-political criticism, then, is thrown out to probably justify the incomprehensible ministerial label of 'film of cultural interest'. A fundamental role but kept to one side is that of the perfect wife Aurora, played by a good one Victoria Puccini (retained and in part), a wife who has always supported and helped Antonio in his proverbial misfortunes and then abandoned him once he reached the summit, because he had changed to such an extent that he needed a life preserver.
A step too far, the one taken by the good De Luigi, pulled down from a script as rough as the sugar used by his beautiful wife and as harsh as that coffee powder that ended up dirtying a film with sweet ambitions but mediocre results.
Tiramiru (Comedy, Italy, 2016) by Fabio De Luigi; with Fabio De Luigi, Vittoria Puccini, Alberto Farina, Angelo Duro, Giulia Bevilacqua., Nicola Pistoia, Giovanni Esposito, Orso Maria Guerrini – released on Thursday 25 February 2016.
Monday 22 February 2016 – BLOGO – Cineblog
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