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ALBANESE And Zalon: LAUGHTER (LOVE) POLICY. RING OF A MILLION

It is now clear that there is a passing phenomenon: Checco Zalone broken every day that passes all box office records (including Benigni), and sorry if it is little. Whatever, just released, is already staggering box-office record file (I've experienced firsthand this afternoon). And of course let's not forget Welcome to the South, although that came out well before Christmas (the period of 'fat cows' for our film), reached the remarkable figure of 30 million €.
With these numbers, you clearly this is a new kind of comedy that is gaining momentum, and we can only applaud. Also because it comes in the aftermath of the exciting results of the 'cinepanettoni', which mark the step in part. In short, for the first time since time immemorial, the charts show a resounding domination of Italian cinema, which places (for now) three films in the first three places with dizzying results.
At this point, there are two questions that most affect the movie fan: 1) what's going on? 2) It is true glory? Understood as: a consensus so high is the quality?

begin with the first. What are the reasons for this 'flashback' to the naked and pure comedy (and not passed off by 'comedy'?). Mainly, as mentioned, the partial alienation of the public against cinepanettoni. I stress partial because we do not forget that Christmas in South Africa grossed nearly 19 million euro, while The gang of Santas arrived at 21: I am still very respectable results for our box office. But the decline there, is undeniable. And the reason is quite simple after all, says Diego Abatantuono : ' are now twenty-five years in Italy are produced cinepanettoni, and people is a bit' broken bales ... 'To blame him?

Probably this is Checco Zalone has fallen into our rooms with the fury of a storm, taking with him the face of 'new man ', the 'comic right time'. What a beautiful day not be comparable to a film by Billy Wilder (to quote a joke of a dear friend of mine), but laughing is laughing, and even a lot. Of course, it is absolutely true that this is comedy 'biting', 'alternative', 'belly', as I read in many reviews ... I would say that is just the opposite: Zalone draws heavily from Benigni and do not invent anything: it takes good-natured around terrorism, racial prejudice, the eternal conflict between North and South (which also had the good fortune to Bisio) and does so in a simple, direct, effective but not vulgar. It is also fairly conventional, if we are honest. But maybe he's right Gianni Canova when he says that ' Zalone stages the' prevalence of idiot ': we all sometimes tend to feel stupid Zalone, staging more than a fool of us, makes us self- fulfill our stupidity '. But beyond this, the main merit of What a beautiful day is to be a movie 'true', built and designed with all the trappings, with a screenplay very simple but not pulled away, and able to support the timing and pace of the film. And this we must recognize this.

What does that instead Antonio Albanian in Any . Of course, here we are on other tracks of comedy. Albanian film leads to one of his most successful characters, blatantly kissed by good fortune: the facts (tragici. ..) these days far exceeds the imagination, making it sound like the film an instant-movie on the 'painful' vicissitudes of sexual Our premier. There could be no better for towing Any : people pour in the room to be loved laughter, looking fierce complicity the comic-Sicilian Monza on the degeneration of morals and the barbarism of our ex-belpaese. It 'a comedy' bad ', acid, masturbation to Tafazzi if we could say that you go to room to get confirmation of what we are stupid and scoundrels, and what really resemble the character of Cetto, which as the same Albanian' comparison of certain politicians of today can be considered a moderate '. So far so good. But Any pateale collapses in a film in its structure: the film is nothing but a succession of sketches, hilarious gags as fierce but held together without head or tail. And in the end the viewer instead get tired fun to do. Laughter in the first twenty minutes, but then the repetition of certain scenes brings out the boredom, and eventually the Oretta projection seems far-fetched and a half longer than usual ... Albanian Fazio worked right or Zelig, where a quarter of an hour scompisciare makes you laugh. But once again (as in Man freshwater and hunger and thirst ) shows it has not yet taken the steps of the film itself.
From this point of view better, much better Checco Zalone .

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