Un sacco bello (1980) User Reviews

italian masterpiece

[robertodandi · 10/10 · 27 May 2002]

Carlo Verdone here is maybe at his best (I also love with the same passion his `Bianco , Rosso e Verdone`), while transferring on the big screen some of the characters he played on the italian TV (a successful operation in this case). There are three stories and three main characters played by Verdone (he plays also a priest and a professor): Leo, Ruggiero and Enzo. Leo, to me, is a representation of the provincialism and traditionalism of some italians who don`t speak english and live with parents or grandparents even in the adult age, compared to the cosmopolitan Marisol who travels all around the world and lives without inhibitions.

Ruggiero is the part of the italian people who reject the italian traditional way of living, escapes from his tyrannic father (an unforgettable MARIO BREGA) who happens to be communist (`fascio a me? guarda che io non so` communista cosi`, so` communista cosi`!!` - untranslatable) but `italian style` (the father asks for help to a priest and a professor to convince his son to come back home). Ruggiero however, even if his choice - a hippy community, a wide phenomenon at that time - is ridiculized by the movie, is a winner compared to Enzo, the guy who wants to go to Praha to pick up easy girls (at that time communist and scandinavian countries were the place of legendary easy sex encounters in the popular italian mithology). The character of Enzo is, for me, a mix of Alberto Sordi`s Nando Mericoni (`Un americano a Roma`) and Vittorio Gassman`s Bruno Cortona (`Il sorpasso). I mean, Enzo is like Nando and a Bruno wanna-be. Enzo finds his way of life trying to emulate some kind of distorted american-style of life (`A voi fa fuma`? Smoke! `A voi fa beve? Drink!, `A voi sfragna`? Fuck!) and tries to find a mate for the journey and in order to escape his loliness (in his address books we read among the white pages: Olimpico, Stadio and Stadio Olimpico).

In conclusion a must-see movie for those who want simply to see a real comic movie and also a funny representation (but at the end somehow sad) of some italian ideal-types

"...in che senso?!"

[Il_Koreano · 6/10 · 29 July 2001]

Three man (playing by Carlo Verdone) and three different story: Leo is a shy guy, and it's world is only the job, the mother and Ladispoli. But he meet Marisol (Verónica Miriel), and it's way to see the world will begin to change. Enzo is the contrary of Leo. It's a boy much outlandish, tries to attract people with it's outlandish stories. While he is travel for a vacation, a friend of this will be felt badly in it's car. But for Enzo it is all a fact of nervousness. Ruggiero is a boy who lives in a community, and when he come to Rome, it finds again the father. He invites Ruggiero to pass a day between the old ones walls of house. And he meet old faces known in the past. All will find it changed.

A great comedy, with many phrases rendered celebrates from the big actor Verdone. I council this film to who wants to know the comic Carlo Verdone.

A very amusing comedy movie

[destracricetale · 9/10 · 16 October 2006]

Carlo Verdone was a good imitator and comedy actor, here he rendered several characters with the late Mario Brega ( a former boxer and sword and sandal and western actor) as a side kick. I wonder if this movie was dubbed ( hope not) and how an American or an Asian can be amusing watching it.

Verdone 's characters are all build ed from real life people ( he rendered a wimp, a Guido, a Hippy , a priest and a boring man)and the different voices and the dialogs of those characters( if you are an Italian) were irresistible because they sound both real and grotesque at the same time. If available, see this movie in Italian with subtitles. Sadly, the now days Verdone lost his magic: his movies are still watchable and funny but without the naive strenght of the early ones.

An absolut masterpiece of the italian comedy

[magni_davide · 9/10 · 21 June 2018]

An evergreen, one of those movies that you can see many times and they are still funny. Carlo Verdone plays three main characters (plus other minor roles): the cocky Enzo, and his dream to reach Poland with the friend Sergio, to meet many polish girls; the hippie Ruggero, who has to confront his dispotic father to explain his rejection to the modern way of life and embrace the nature in a community on the tuscanian hills; and the clumsy and naive Leo, who meets a spanish girl but is unable to do anything with her. It's a comic movie, but there's something slightly sad in all their stories, some loneliness and finally the impossibility to change their fate despite all their efforts.

just a small, geographic, statement on the comment

[marc-gia-ni · 9/10 · 17 July 2006]

nice script, it summarizes very well the whole movie, with his 3 characters' plot. I just wanted to point out that Enzo would like to go to Poland,Cracow and not in Praha (back then it belonged to Czechoslovakia) I agree, it's a real masterpiece, it shows without restraint some of the positive (just a few, indeed) and negative sides of the so-called "italiano medio" who spends half of his life close to the mamma, but at the same time is always ready to pick up any good-looking foreign girl that has the good taste to smile upon him. I mean Leo and Enzo are so different, the first is so shy, the latter is so outrageous but they could be a sort of "doctor Jekyll & mister hide"...2 people in 1!

Marco