Coming to Amazon is the TV series in which the actor-director tells himself in a hilarious and tender way, “between a passion for medicines, selfies with fans and producers who ask you to always play the same characters”
Carlo Verdone stages his life, tells it (in 10 30-minute episodes on Amazon Prime from November 5) as if it were a hilarious, tender, regenerating film (“it was a challenge, a new opportunity”), fresh as a slice of watermelon. His Story of an Italian is made with impulses, fears, melancholies, frailties: “There is a lot of my private life, 40 percent, and it made me recite more lightly, without the worry of having to make people laugh. But it was exhausting, tiring ». There are his wife Gianna, played by Monica Guerritore, his best friend Max Tortora, his two children, Alessandro Haber who says that Jews are persecuted: “We’ve thought for a long time whether to put it on, but I can’t take it anymore politically correct, we won’t make anyone laugh anymore. There is this terror… Enough ».
His first TV series is what he lives every day, the assault for a selfie (“the day before yesterday on the train I didn’t close the toilet properly and a guy took a picture of me, he said I can’t miss this, people are crazy »), The passion for medicines (he takes the drops and says,” tonight I’ll do a total anesthesia to sleep “) and the meeting with a pharmacist (Anita Caprioli) who for him is the ideal love. In a dream he wins at the Cannes Film Festival with a thoughtful film, the spectators are depicted with the mannequin of the silhouette of Verdone applauding. For his screenwriter, the time has come to surprise the audience, we need an authorial twist, “we need an act of courage on your part.” “But doesn’t that dark title leave a bitter taste?” – Carlo answers -. The audience he loved I make it strange, how can you take it? ». He lets himself be persuaded: “I have to show that I can do other things too.” The producer, rough type: «But how did you two to give birth to a str … like that? The public wants to laugh ‘».
Then the unexpected event. In one scene a boy falls on a moped on one of the notorious holes in Rome and Verdone who is there is filmed by a passerby talking about a dull, dirty, abandoned city. There is a lack of trained politicians who love Rome as we love it. Remember this when you go to vote ». The president of the Region echoes Zingaretti, his name is Signoretti, sees the video and proposes him to run for mayor. «It really happened to me – says Verdone -, they had done a survey that gave me 70 percent, without ballot. But in life you can only do one job, why abandon the work I started in ’71 in a Roman theater? ». Fiction and truth, Gualtieri doesn’t know him, «the important thing is that you surround yourself with a strong team. We must overcome the bureaucracy, in one scene there was the cage around the statue of Garibaldi, the former mayor Raggi told me that three superintendencies were involved. But you only have to approach a block of marble due to the fall of a lightning bolt of years before, why make a bad impression on tourists, is it not enough filth? ».
In the film the news of the candidacy arrives at D’Agostino who publishes his photo on the website in Gallo cedrone when he wants to pave the Tiber to solve the traffic. And he writes in Dagospia: “After Grillo, it is the continuation of comedy in politics with other, usually bad, jokes.” Verdone has the nightmare of being Giulio Cessare, he has the laurel on his head: “I want to resurrect this city.” “But do you want to be a director or a politician?” Asks the press officer. “I want to make an arthouse film, then if ten people go to the room I don’t give a damn.” Carlo, but do you really dream of it? “No, it is enough for me to be loved, but since I am a grown-up I would not mind, one day, bringing to the cinema a film that is not a comedy”.
October 22, 2021 (change October 22, 2021 | 18:11)
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