Sole a catinelle
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Directed by | Gennaro Nunziante |
Screenplay by | Gennaro Nunziante Checco Zalone |
Starring | Checco Zalone Aurore Erguy Miriam Dalmazio Robert Dancs |
Music by | Checco Zalone |
Distributed by | Medusa Film |
Release date | |
Running time | 90 min |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | €52.2 million |
Sole a catinelle (lit. '"Sun[light] in basins"', modeled on the expression pioggia a catinelle, "rain in bucketfulls ", which means that it is raining very hard) is a 2013 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Nunziante. The film is the second highest-grossing Italian film in Italy.[3][4]
Plot
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In the midst of the
During the night, Nicolò phones his mother telling her that Molise is extremely boring and she arranges that her friend Soukaina's family will meet the duo at Piombino, Tuscany and take Nicolò with them. That night, the house is extremely cold (Rita does not want to pay for a heating system), and Checco finds an old electric stove, which he switches on. The next day, they travel to Piombino, but, seeing that Checco is sad, Nicolò escapes and returns with him. Driving, the two notice a "Zoo" sign, and enter in a courtyard, where Checco meets a boy who does not answer his questions about the zoo. Checco shouts his sentences and the boy, Lorenzo, finally answers that the Zoo "is here". Checco later meets Zoe, Lorenzo's French Italian mother and director of the "Zoo" (stylized with an "E" inside the second "O") art exhibition, and the boy's psychologist, who suggests to the former to invite the duo to stay with them (who are extremely rich), to help Lorenzo with his problem, which is later revealed to be selective mutism caused by his filmmaker father, Ludovico, who is filming a film named "Eutanasia mon amour" (a drama-like metaphor about euthanasia, in which Checco tries to act, but is soon rejected), and whose work is the only thing he cares about. The characters of Vittorio Manieri, a rich Italian entrepreneur and owner of most of Riccardo's (Zoe's deceased father, whose inability to "speak" is misunderstood by Checco as the cause of Lorenzo's mutism) former companies (including the company that intends to fire Daniela and many other people), Juliette Marin, Zoe's mother and Vittorio's mistress, and Piergiorgio Bollini, a close friend of Vittorio. The former explains Checco that he and Juliette, despite Zoe's intentions, want to buy FidoFly, but Zoe succeeds in nulling the affair when Checco convinces them that the company is about to fail due to people that "has to pay forty-eight rows" like himself) and the fact that FidoFly later finds itself in that situation impresses Manieri and Bollini, who ask him what is his entrepreneur field, and, as he answers that it is the "cleaning" field, they misunderstand that he "cleans" "dirty" (illegally earnt) money and reveal their true nature, starting to plan a co-operation with Checco's company: they are dishonest Freemasons constantly tracked by the Guardia di Finanza, but both Checco and his boss, Dr. Surace, do not understand their dishonesty, then the former can be sure of not being fired.
Checco soon falls in love and with Zoe, becoming her lover despite already being in love with Daniela, whom, when she sees Checco on television with Manieri and hears about his relationship with Zoe, she forces a syndicalist from her factory to become her sexual partner. Checco discovers this and, feeling extremely sad (with the excuse of not having had any
Cast
- Checco Zalone as Checco Zalone
- Robert Dancs as Nicolò Zalone
- Miriam Dalmazio as Daniela
- Aurore Erguy as Zoe Garnier
- Ruben Aprea as Lorenzo
- Valeria Cavalli as Juliette Marin
- Orsetta De Rossi as Domiziana
- Marco Paolini as Vittorio Manieri
- Lidia Biondi as Carolina
Reception
The film grossed a record €18.6 million on its opening weekend.[3] It was number-one for three consecutive weekends. It grossed a total of US$56.7 million, and became the highest-grossing domestic film in Italy, surpassing Zalone and Nunziante's 2011 film What a Beautiful Day.[3] It is currently the second highest-grossing film in Italy only surpassed by Quo Vado? also starring Zalone and directed by Nunziante. Despite the commercial success, the film received generally mixed reviews from critics.[5][6]
Remake
A Spanish remake film directed by Dani de la Orden was released in 2018: The Best Summer of My Life (El mejor verano de mi vida).[7]
See also
References
- ^ "Sole a catinelle". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ "Comedian Checco Zalone breaks box office records". Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ^ a b c Anderson, Ariston (January 4, 2016). "Italy Box Office: Local Hit 'Quo Vado?' Sets Opening Records". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ Lyman, Eric J. (November 4, 2013). "Italian Comedy 'Sun in Buckets' Sets New Opening Weekend Sales Record". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- ^ Sole a catinelle (2013) - IMDb, retrieved 2023-04-01
- ^ "Recensione "Sole a catinelle": Sereno variabile". Movieplayer.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ^ Hernández Luján, Raquel (10 July 2018). "Crítica de El mejor verano de mi vida, con Leo Harlem desatado". HobbyConsolas.
External links
- Sole a catinelle at IMDb