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The Monster.I found a couple of posts in the archives about this lighthearted comedy featuring Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc and pretty hot looking Nicoletta Braschi. My buddy lent it to me a month back and I watched it last night.
This '96 comedy centers around a serial murderer/sex fiend running loose in a big metropolitan city (Rome?) and a potential suspect who is an out of work professional, a scammer and who is presently down on his luck and being evicted. The police want to catch him red-handed, so they send in a lovely looking police officer named Jessica to be his roommate and turn him on to the point of attack. The rest is pretty funny.
If I found it used, I'd probably buy it for the library, but it is worth buying new, if you haven't already seen it. I liken it to the French film I saw at the Miami Film Festival a few years back called The Dinner Game (I think that's what it was called.)
Take care, Chris
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he's been called the "italian jim carey" - is there something about roberto benigni that disguishes him from jim carey, or are you a fan of both?i have to admit that i like both, but i think one difference is that benigni's films are little more "adult", like benny hill (i.e., his gags are about looking up girl's dresses rather than coming out of a hippo's butt).
I grew tired of some of the gags. Had they been half the length, it would have been cool. In one part, he was walking around in circles hooting and hollaring and another gag was when he would squat down and walk past the condo manager's office. Fine and dandy, but he'd get way past the person's view and still be walking like a duck. Same thing with the end, when they walk down the street. Brevity would have been the call, IMO.Still, a funny film. I have no desire to see him in Pinnochio.
Chris
Chris,It's been awhile since I saw Il Mostro" but it is a knee slapper. The scene in which the police present the film of Begnini being the sexual "predator" and cat killer and the contrast when we see the actual events is worthy of Keaton or Chaplin.
I think the funniest Begnini sequence is his segmment as the taxi driver at 4AM Rome in "Night On Earth". This conversation between Begnini and an ill-fated priest that should not be viewed by hernia sufferers.
K
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