Italian cinema has two problems. The first is that people almost no longer go to the cinema, the second is what they go to see. Films that usually gross figures inversely proportional to the funding they obtain from the State, mostly shot in Rome, acted in Roman dialect, which talk about 40-50 year old couples in crisis, who live between penthouses and restaurants, who are about to divorce, or they divorced or got back together after the divorce, they argue, they always argue, they scream, they throw things at each other, they get their children involved, then they scream again, if Favino isn’t there there’s one of the Rohrwacher sisters, then they scream again, and it always ends up that in Italy the fault was either Berlusconi’s or the fascists’.
More or less what happened the other evening, strange that there wasn’t even a Rohrwacher in a Roman restaurant, on the Aventine, when two “exes”, the actress Micaela Ramazzotti, who was with her new partner, and the director Paolo Virzì, who was with his children, they met by chance and started arguing violently, shouting, throwing everything at each other, plates, chairs, cell phones flew, the Carabinieri and an ambulance arrived.
Between the two families of Ferie d’August, the right-wing Burina one and the left-wing intellectual one, they belong to the second; but then they act like
the first. They want to make arthouse films and live like the peasants of cinepanettoni. Which they hate.
As one who witnessed the scene and immediately called us said: «I would see them well in a film by Virzì and Ramazzotti».