(by Francesco Gallo) (ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 19 - Many newspaper signatures are measured, even on the front page, on the legitimacy of a film like Enrico Vanzina's LOCKDOWN ALL'ITALIANA, while the controversy also spreads on social media.
The question is: can a tragedy like that of Covid-19 be joked, put into comedy?
And therefore the first film by screenwriter Enrico Vanzina directed, in cinemas from 15 October with Medusa, goes under scrutiny but at the same time conquers an unimaginable free advertisement in a period, among other things, when cinema really needs it.
Antonello Piroso in 'La Verità' does well to remember the obvious: there have always been great comedies about great disasters, just think of 'La grande guerra' by Mario Monicelli or 'La vita èbella' by Roberto Benigni.
On the other hand, there are those who laugh at it like Guia Soncini who talks about "the envy of tweeters" onLinkiesta: "While we - he says - toyed with the idea of a script on forced coexistence during the pandemic, the director had already written it, shot it , mounted. Genius is speed of execution ".
Nello Ajello in Il Messaggero speaks instead of 'hypocrisy', of the political will to distinguish between north and south, that is, "we have suffered more and so we have the monopoly of the subject".
And while the social networks are divided, as happens now on every topic, between haters and saviors, Lisa Melidoni, the widow of Carlo Vanzina who died two years ago, also puts in, who attacks her brother-in-law Enrico with a cry of shame: "This is another SHAME of this country that distributes a shit like that ".
Finally, considering that Covid has been ridden by everyone - from Salvatores (Journey to Italy) to Michael Bay (Songbird) to Kevin McDonald (Life in a day 2020) - we don't really know why LOCKDOWN ALL'ITALIANA with the story of two couples (Ezio Greggio and Paola Minaccioni, Ricky Memphis and Martina Stella) and forced to spend the quarantine at home, can cause so much sensation.
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