In updating the issue of affordable rent, a problem previously tackled by Totò, the film shrewdly exploits the comedy of “Il Bagaglino” variety company, led by Pierfrancesco Pingitore and kept on track by Pippo Franco and Oreste Lionello, with the extraordinary collaboration of Gigi Reder and Anna Mazzamauro, two of the regulars of the Fantozzi series. We can limit ourselves to laughing at the misadventures of others and the unsophisticated humour, but even if the film prioritises laughter above all else, we can also observe that the world presented to us is a well of neuroses overflowing into a hellish scenario that inexorably leads towards marginalisation and social degradation. In both cases, the film is wonderfully scripted and full of fantastic performances.
A man with a wife and three children, who has been made redundant, finds himself being evicted. After being defrauded by an estate agent, the family sets out on an odyssey that will see it them illegally occupy an apartment, a church, a bus, a tent on the beach, a gatekeeper’s house in a cemetery and some rubbish bins.
In updating the issue of affordable rent, a problem previously tackled by Totò, the film shrewdly exploits the comedy of “Il Bagaglino” variety company, led by Pierfrancesco Pingitore and kept on track by Pippo Franco and Oreste Lionello, with the extraordinary collaboration of Gigi Reder and Anna Mazzamauro, two of the regulars of the Fantozzi series. We can limit ourselves to laughing at the misadventures of others and the unsophisticated humour, but even if the film prioritises laughter above all else, we can also observe that the world presented to us is a well of neuroses overflowing into a hellish scenario that inexorably leads towards marginalisation and social degradation. In both cases, the film is wonderfully scripted and full of fantastic performances.
A man with a wife and three children, who has been made redundant, finds himself being evicted. After being defrauded by an estate agent, the family sets out on an odyssey that will see it them illegally occupy an apartment, a church, a bus, a tent on the beach, a gatekeeper’s house in a cemetery and some rubbish bins.
