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...Luigi Comencini's version starring Gina Lollobrigida is considered by Benigni to be the most Italian...
...Luigi Comencini's version starring Gina Lollobrigida is considered by Benigni to be the most Italian...
Directed by LUIGI COMENCINI...
Sordi at 42 is a clever straightface comic rather like Peter Sellers served with oil and vinegar. But he cannot elude a tricky problem the picture poses : how to put Mars in motley without suggesting that war is fun? Director Luigi Comencini conceives an interesting solution: play humor against horror, like flint against steel, and hope that sparks will fly. Now and then they do, but usually they don't; and they don't because the humor is too mild, too healthy, too Italian. Director Comencini might as well be striking flint against ravioli...