All Broke

If one thinks of the budget spent to make this good comedy, one can understand how good Marcello Crea has been at creating a plot suspended between the lyrical and the surreal, driving and mixing the multiple voices of the actors in a palpable and smart way. The result is a bittersweet comedy, from which emerges a cross-section of our times, all played out between fiction and reality, aspirations and concreteness. Marcello Crea has the ability to wrap his movie in a romanticism that manages to wring a smile from our lips, on the base of a deep love for cinema and life. A plot to be enjoyed to the full, with the awareness that the distance between reality and dream is less obvious that one might assume.

The film tells of two penniless brothers who inherited the bar from an uncommon aunt, a bar frequented by really strange and funny customers.

The film is particular, because there is a supernatural element in a comic key, with ghosts and fortune tellers.

The movie is funny and brilliant and the actors are good. The situations are deliberately absurd, so absurd as to make you laugh out loud.

I really liked it, I recommend it.

It's an Italian movie, and Italians are the best in comedy movies. This one is inspired by American works, but the location is an Italian restaurant and the characters lives in North Italy.

An italian film that reflects today's society. All the characters, for several reasons, are looking for an accomodation that may be able to improve their living conditions. At the central of the story, we find a strange inheritance leaven by aunt Emily to her hephews Dolly and Max. I really liked the actor Antonio del Prete, who play's the role f Emily's husband: an actual and both comic and verry real character. A wealthy man, who messes with politicians and has an obsessive attention to his physical appearance by practicing gym at home with a ridicolous equipment and by going regulary to a beautician.

Once he said: "to win chess you don't need to know the game, but the face of whoever sits opposite you" and he really amazed me by pronouncing these words.

Seen it yesterday. I liked the idea of a busy bar as if it were an office. This is a bit like what happens in reality. For example, the fortune teller, one of the many extravagant characters in the film, would not have been able to do her business by paying the rent of a place. Same thing for the film producer (played by the director) who is desperately trying to produce his first film and who uses the bar to form an unlikely artistic cast. In addition to the vicissitudes of the two bar managers, there is also the parallel story of a ghost who claims to have lived with the film producer in ancient Rome. Fantasy? It depends on your point of view: the discussion on reincarnation is always fascinating. It might seem like a chaotic film but in the end it all adds up. Then the final twist left me stunned.

I watched this film on Prime Video, the beginning is a bit slow, but when the story gets to the heart it intrigues you and entertains you. I'm especially referring to when the unexpected guest appears in the bar and then a ghost from ancient Rome at a film producer's house. They seem like two different and surprising stories, but then in the end they come together in a beautiful ending, in my opinion, brilliant. It is not a comedy film in the strict sense of the word, there is a lot of irony, and in this irony we capture the miseries of life, a melancholy aspect that makes us reflect. It's a provincial story, it takes place in Trieste, Italy. A very particular city, just as particular is the film.