Two Italians, zero chill, one very confused sexuality crisis.
The movie is basically two unrelated comedic features: the first one features the travails of a man who stutters and tries to woo a woman he wants to date. The second features the wonderful Renato Pozetto as a gay man who lives with a partner, but finds himself falling for a woman, and not knowing how to tell his partner, who is prone to melodrama.
Acting
Renato Pozetto's melodramatic gay panic is pure theater.
Writing
Two plots, zero logic, maximum意大利闹剧 energy.
Director
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Enrico Montesano
Riccardo 'Rick' Antuono
Daniela Poggi
Ornella
Gino Pernice
Carletto Benedetti
Gianni Agus
Annibale Pierbianco
Umberto Zuanelli
Orfeo Canevari (Geppetto)
Ennio Antonelli
The Grocer
Renato Pozzetto
Renato
Leopoldo Mastelloni
Alberto Maria Saracino
Maria Rosaria Omaggio
Ella Ferrari
Carlo Bagno
Renato's Father
Carla Monti
madre di Renato
Mirella Falco
Signora alla cabina del telefono
Roberto Caporali
The Bookmaker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
80s Italian cinema loved bundling unrelated shorts as 'features' to dodge TV competition—this is basically two sitcom pilots in a trenchcoat.
Pozetto was Italy's king of chaotic everymen; this role let him play melodramatic camp while still being 'relatable'—a tightrope only 1981 could allow.
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