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The ugliest movie i've ever seen. All the more ugly as it starts from "high" intentions. The director would like to make an anti-racist speech, instead he ends up doing pure racism. the Venetians are presented as thieves, swindlers, racists, drunkards and whoever has more. Abatantuono at its worst, try throughout the film to speak Venetian without succeeding. Lodovini only knows how to show off her smile. Mastandrea is embarrassing in the role of a Roman commissioner, salvific among the bad Venetians. There is also room for a colored prostitute who, obviously in perfect Italian, gives everyone valuable life advice. From a technical point of view the direction is non-existant. Tragicomic. Fortunately very few have seen it.

Until this one develops into an Italian take on "A Day Without Mexicans", it looks like it will be a class act. It opens nicely with the boy driver of the one bull cattle truck and Abatantuono's TV tirades but lapses into over-stretched magic realism, before its final sand hills joke.

TV demagogue Abatantuono, teacher Lodovini and cop Mastandrea prove to be interconnected, as life in Italy is disrupted when all the immigrants vanish. Individual scenes play nicely. The rabbit sub-plot is one of their best inventions.

Good cast and some nice Eastmancolor imagery.