This vehicle for Italian comedy star Checco Zalone about a government official sent to the Arctic never quite convinces
This has been a homegrown box office smash in Italy; to like it, maybe you need to be a fan of its writer and leading man: Italian TV comedy star Checco Zalone – a performer somewhere between Sacha Baron Cohen and Michael Barrymore. Checco plays a guy who has a posto fisso or fixed job: a much-coveted and outrageously cushy government post with zero work required. A new official, tasked with ending such sinecures, tries to persuade Checco to take voluntary redundancy. When he refuses, she sends him to ever more unpleasant postings, including an Italian expedition to the Arctic, where he falls in love with Valeria (Eleonora Giovanardi), a beautiful scientist of liberal views who introduces him to the hilarious world of politically correct righteousness in her adopted homeland of Norway,...
This has been a homegrown box office smash in Italy; to like it, maybe you need to be a fan of its writer and leading man: Italian TV comedy star Checco Zalone – a performer somewhere between Sacha Baron Cohen and Michael Barrymore. Checco plays a guy who has a posto fisso or fixed job: a much-coveted and outrageously cushy government post with zero work required. A new official, tasked with ending such sinecures, tries to persuade Checco to take voluntary redundancy. When he refuses, she sends him to ever more unpleasant postings, including an Italian expedition to the Arctic, where he falls in love with Valeria (Eleonora Giovanardi), a beautiful scientist of liberal views who introduces him to the hilarious world of politically correct righteousness in her adopted homeland of Norway,...
- 4/28/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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