Winning team and title do not change. If anything, they are integrated with a subtitle, (“Return to Coccia di morte”) which underlines the connotation of a sequel and with the graft, alongside the protagonist couple Paola Cortellesi and Antonio Albanese (Monica and Giovanni), to their respective children, to the radicalchic Sonia Bergamasco (who is about to open a “lavender olfactory”) to the kleptomaniac twins Alessandra and Valentina Giudicessa, to Claudio Amendola blond and tattooed and to Franca Leosini still in a cameo, of some apt new entry: Sara Felderbaum, new glacial and rampant Giovanni’s girlfriend, Luca Argentero in the role of the pious and handsome Don Davide, Mariano Rigillo (Don Vincenzo) who with “Sister Fork” and “Sister Maria Catena” animates the parish of San Basilio where Cortellesi at the beginning of the film is engaged in a social work useful alternative to the prison in which she ended up due to the fault of the twins from the hand.
Three years after the blockbuster “Like a cat on the ring road”, premiered only on 14 and 15 August in 427 theaters and then on 26 August officially in cinemas on a release date traditionally reserved for American blockbusters, after having resisted stoically to the sirens of the platforms lands the sequel “Come un Gatto in tangenziale, return to Coccia di morte”, directed by Riccardo Milani, a Wildsocietà production of the Fremantle group and Vision distribution in collaboration with Sky and Amazon Prime Video.
Scripted during the pandemic by Milani, Giulia Calenda, Furio Andreotti and Cortellesi herself, ‘Gatto’ as the protagonists confidentially call it returns with new Roman suburbs (starting with Tor Bella Monaca) juxtaposed with the original one of Bastogi and even more comic developments of the first film: the thieving twins transformed into the terrifying little sisters of “The Shining” in the nightmares of the protagonist, a flood of jokes like the tremontiamo “Con la cultura nun se magna” the protagonist’s catchphrase, together with the “me so ‘it happens alone”, “I’m impicciata” and with the intellectual protagonist increasingly exasperated by the cool menus of the openings, based on a “risotto experience”.
But, above all, Gatto 2 focuses on a message of push towards social cohesion and the breaking down of barriers and cultural prejudices, made even stronger, Milani underlined, by the experience of the pandemic: “We saw the country unite for fifteen days and then that’s it, overwhelmed by social hatred. Monica and Giovanni, emblems of their respective opposing universes, have allowed us to tell a story of a country that instead wants to regroup “.
The first blockbuster film ended with Giovanni-Albanese, a Milanese intellectual theorist of social integration with serious gaps in practice, and Monica, a proud Roman forced from borderline existence, sitting on a bench betting that their strange love story, born after that of their children then hampered by the different social background, it would have lasted like a cat on the ring road. The second chapter starts from their children Alessio and Agnese who meet in a London pub, while in Rome Monica ends up in prison because of the twins who hid stolen goods in the oil drums of “Pizza and Samosa”, and asks for help. to Giovanni, who in the meantime has become romantically linked to the rampant Camilla (Sarah Felderbaum) with whom he is engaged in an ambitious and too sophisticated project to recover a cultural space in the suburbs.
To get Monica out of prison, Giovanni succeeds in commuting the detention with a job in the parish of San Basilio led by Don Davide (Argentero) as pious as he is beautiful, which Monica, allergic to the nuns who she considers bring bad luck (it’s all a ” yours “and” yours with no return “to unload the bad luck) can not stand it. This is how Monica and Giovanni’s lives intertwine again but this time, despite the thousand troubles they will get into, a true love story seems to be born that the two would like to formalize with a lunch on the caciarona beach of Coccia di Morto, with the whole extended family. And this is where a surprise arrives that seems to herald a third chapter, even if the protagonists explained at the press conference that there is no new project. At the moment.