The story centers on Dubois (S. Orlando) a once-acclaimed movie director now in a 5-years long creativity crisis. While his agent is pushing him to have some ideas for a new movie, he gets a call informing him that there is a major problem with his apartment in an a tiny village in Tuscany and urging him to go there immediately. Once there he discovers that local authorities broke his door and most of his bathroom to search for a leak that damaged a 15th-century fresco in the church below. Since he had failed to comply with requests to upgrade/redo the plumbings in the past, he is now held responsible for the damages but the major (S. Sandrelli) is willing to settle the issue if he accepts to direct the "holy Friday" representation to be held in the upcoming days. If he refuses he will be publicy accused of disregarding Italians art masterpieces (an accusation that will crush his image of a man of art). Reluctantly accepting the offer, he is now forced to stay there while at the same time trying to manage his agent and restart his creativity. The movie revolves about the interaction of Dubois with the different characters until holy Friday arrives and the representation takes place.
The problems with the movie lay in the poor script, viewers are often required to suspend belief (just for starters: in case of a leak would not be easier to close the main water valve instead of breaking into someone's apartment and start pickaxing the bathroom tiles to find such a leak? is it lawful for a major to arbitrarily decide to propose such a deal to Dubois?). There are just a few gags that will make you laugh and raise the level above the boring mess of this movie; but they are just too few and to sparse to save the day. In short, a slow movie who was in need of a good rewriting.
In short
The problems with the movie lay in the poor script, viewers are often required to suspend belief (just for starters: in case of a leak would not be easier to close the main water valve instead of breaking into someone's apartment and start pickaxing the bathroom tiles to find such a leak? is it lawful for a major to arbitrarily decide to propose such a deal to Dubois?). There are just a few gags that will make you laugh and raise the level above the boring mess of this movie; but they are just too few and to sparse to save the day. In short, a slow movie who was in need of a good rewriting.
In short