Italy
Fun is beautiful
35mm – colore - 99’
Direction: Carlo Verdone
Screenplay: Carlo Verdone, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi
Cinematography: Ennio Guarnieri
Editing: Eugenio Alabiso
Set design: Carlo Simi
Music: Ennio Morricone
Costumes: Roberto Mangoni, Carlo Simi
Cast: Carlo Verdone, Veronica Miriel, Mario Brega, Isabella De Bernardi
Producers: Romano Cardarelli, Sergio Leone
Production: Medusa
SYNOPSIS
The stories of three very dissimilar characters intersect in a hot summer in Rome. Enzo, a vulgar fop all puffed up, leaves for Cracow with his friend who feels ill even before leaving the city. Ruggero is getting back home with his partner, after two years spent in a hippy community, living on the fruits of his work and professing free love. Leo, instead, is a naive boy who lives with his mother in a flat in Trastevere. He has met by chance Marisol, who is looking for a flop after finding that the hostel is fully booked up. At first unwilling, Leo accepts to house her.
CRITICAL NOTE
“(…) Fun is beautiful is the description of three failures. (…) Verdone makes us glimpse the unbearable melancholy of being alone. However, the film passes over more serious notes, focusing on the laugh, on a great polymorphic number by a very gifted comic. (…) Verdone confirms his subtle eye and the successful grimace already recognized by his audience. His next films will reveal us whether we have a new humorous writer before our eyes, as suggested by the clarity of the images and the scheme of the other characters (among them the Spanish Véronica Miriel stands out).” (Tullio Kezich)
AWARDS
1980 David di Donatello: Best New Actor
1980 Silver ribbon: as Best New Actor
1980 Golden Ticket
