Acting
Francesco Nuti's physical comedy is painfully perfect.
Direction
Ponzi captures Florence like a fever dream you half-remember.
Director
Maurizio Ponzi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Francesco Nuti's breakthrough as a leading man, cementing the 'shy, stammering Italian everyman' archetype that dominated commedia all'italiana in the 1980s.
The title comes from a line in a 19th-century Italian poem by Giacomo Leopardi—Ponzi chose it specifically to mock the pretension of his own surreal plot.
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