Rag. Arturo De Fanti bancario-precario

Watch this movie only for Anna Maria Rizzoli.

But i found a great actor Paolo Villaggio from Italian Cinema of 1980.

Both the story line and comedy done by Paolo Villaggio was extremely hilarious.

For sake of Money, A husband invite his illicit lover with the consent of his wife for extra money, Then wife invites her illicit lover for another extra money.

Then lover of wife leads to arrival of his actual wife and she invites her Paramour.

Then lover of Husband leads to arrival of lover actual husband.

Finally the manager of husband resolves this money issue.

Even with the subtitle in english the movie was extremely funny.

Thanking of which how the Italian Audience would have enjoyed this comedy.

Each character was addling aa toppup in a ice cream flavour and each were unique characterisation.

Good Movie.

Luciano Salce, was a very good Italian director, he directed many excellent comedies. He's the one who directed the first two and the best Fantozzi films, with the same Paolo Villaggio. This movie has also the spirit of Fantozzi and it's a successful comedy, with an original subject. Very cool the scenes with the conversations while the bank is robbed, followed by those absurd observations made by the bank boss, how the shirt is broken in the elbow, etc.

This could have been a biting satire on the cost of living in Italy but it somehow fails to deliver, maybe because it took such a long time to make its point. The plot has moments of inspired black humour but too often these are diluted by cheap slap-stick moments. And the cheap slap-stick scenes outnumber the good scenes.

Highlights are the bank robbery scenes (there are so many bank robberies that the tellers just carry on chatting casually as though it were a daily event), the three cohabiting couples arguing over who is sleeping with whom that night and the scenes where morals are swayed by the promise of small financial gains.

Paolo Villaggio is undeniably funny (in a typical role of a downtrodden office worker which was his specialty), but a tighter plot could have transformed this film.