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For some reasons, this movie seems to be totally forgotten, though it deserves better. Alberto Sordi is a great comic actor, and here he is at his best. By sheer accident, private investigators begin surveillance of his wife, and he comes to know many surprising things about her and himself, sometimes upsetting, sometimes moving, and mostly very funny. It is a very Italian movie, and at the same time very universal in its view of everyday life. I just wished it would be somehow available in the US.

For some reasons, this movie seems to be totally forgotten, though it deserves better. Alberto Sordi is a great comic actor, and here he is at his best. By sheer accident, private investigators begin surveillance of his wife, and he comes to know many surprising things about her and himself, sometimes upsetting, sometimes moving, and mostly very funny. It is a very Italian movie, and at the same time very universal in its view of everyday life.

This film was shown by Roger Ebert at his "Overlooked Film Festival," and Michael Idemoto was on stage with other actors. He is as dumb as he is in the movie, his "reading" throughout the movie is a cheap image of an "intellectual," and carries no substance. The movie has been shot using a video camera in about a week, and it shows. Ebert was trying to sell this movie as a sort of counterpoint to stereotypes about Asian-Americans. It remains unclear what stereotypes are addressed, if any. There is no story to speak of, the only nice thing in the movie is picturesque area of San Francisco, which can be shown in five minutes. Summary: waste of time.