A director sneaks banned erotica into a folk dance show—what could go wrong?
After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.
Writing
Meta-narrative about making the very film you're watching
Acting
Riondino's exasperated everyman navigating bureaucratic absurdity
Production
Blending archive Wolinski footage with fictional rehearsals
Director
Mauro Cappelloni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Georges Wolinski's actual archive footage appears throughout; he died in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, making this a posthumous collaboration.
The Pizzica originated as a therapeutic trance-dance for spider bites—fitting that David uses it as poison and cure simultaneously.
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