All Broke

The film tells of two penniless brothers who inherited the bar from an uncommon aunt, a bar frequented by really strange and funny customers.

The film is particular, because there is a supernatural element in a comic key, with ghosts and fortune tellers.

The movie is funny and brilliant and the actors are good. The situations are deliberately absurd, so absurd as to make you laugh out loud.

I really liked it, I recommend it.

It's an Italian movie, and Italians are the best in comedy movies. This one is inspired by American works, but the location is an Italian restaurant and the characters lives in North Italy.

The main scenes of the film take place in a bar located in an isolated place in the middle of nature, near Trieste, Italy. The place is frequented by some students and by strange characters including a film producer and a fortune teller. Both use the place as an office receiving their clients. From here come comical and paradoxical situations. The managers of the bar (two unemployed guys) don't know how to get rid of a clientele without money who, in addition to occupying the bar for hours, consume nothing. The presence of a ghost that messes up the life of the producer is disturbing but also very funny. The film has a fast pace, the characters come from different cultures, and the director's choice to leave a very marked dialectal accent in some moments of the film makes the story more grotesque and original.

Seen it yesterday. I liked the idea of a busy bar as if it were an office. This is a bit like what happens in reality. For example, the fortune teller, one of the many extravagant characters in the film, would not have been able to do her business by paying the rent of a place. Same thing for the film producer (played by the director) who is desperately trying to produce his first film and who uses the bar to form an unlikely artistic cast. In addition to the vicissitudes of the two bar managers, there is also the parallel story of a ghost who claims to have lived with the film producer in ancient Rome. Fantasy? It depends on your point of view: the discussion on reincarnation is always fascinating. It might seem like a chaotic film but in the end it all adds up. Then the final twist left me stunned.

I saw this director's first film entitled When Everything Is Possible (Todo se puede) and I was fascinated by the naturalness of the dialogues and the spontaneity of the actors. Actors that we largely find in All Broke. I find this second film more entertaining than the first, very accurate, has a good rhythm and leaves you in suspense until the end. In some scenes one can identify with the characters; above all I find uncle Carmelo's maid legendary. The exasperation of appearing on social media is part of many people and the film describes it in an ironic way. Nice the character of Max who wants to be unemployed for life by choice. Adorable (and a little naughty) his sister Dolly.

If one thinks of the budget spent to make this good comedy, one can understand how good Marcello Crea has been at creating a plot suspended between the lyrical and the surreal, driving and mixing the multiple voices of the actors in a palpable and smart way. The result is a bittersweet comedy, from which emerges a cross-section of our times, all played out between fiction and reality, aspirations and concreteness. Marcello Crea has the ability to wrap his movie in a romanticism that manages to wring a smile from our lips, on the base of a deep love for cinema and life. A plot to be enjoyed to the full, with the awareness that the distance between reality and dream is less obvious that one might assume.