Cinema at the Institute – LANDSCAPES IN ITALIAN CINEMA (Set in Turin)
Director: Ivan Polidoro. Cast: Gianfelice Imparato, Gianni Ferreri, Mimmo Esposito, Lorenza Indovina. Italy. 2006
The film’s setting provides a wonderful backdrop for this comedy, and the director uses the scenery of Naples’ famous Gulf as a seductive setting on which Ivo, Rosario, and Peppe live their lives as if on vacation. Strolling in panama hats, Bermuda shorts and colourful shirts, almost oblivious to the stress that surrounds them, their professions as undertaker, mailman and cemetery guard provide a contradiction that set the comic/ironic ball rolling. To give their lives a creative dimension they perform music as a band in local clubs. Always on the lookout for escaping their patchwork existence and hopeful for events to spice up their lives, the three are given a golden opportunity when a local thief is killed during a jewel heist…
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