L'afide e la formica - Comments & Tips

Muck on video has a very specific face in Italy and this film is yet another testimony to it. I ended up watching it by pure chance as the poster and the short presentation looked interesting. I must say that I couldn't tear myself away from it out of curiosity to see where it was going... Do I regret it? No, because every now and then I need to remind myself what happens to most of the funds for culture taken from my taxes. A first-grade script, a Giuseppe Fiorello caricatured to the point of being pathetic and a morbid emphasis on unmotivated drama destroy the potential of an enjoyable film that could have focused solely on the story of the protagonist, Fatima. Instead, no, the director (from whom I will make sure to stay well away in the years to come) decided to overdo it and with a tremendously irritating presumption. A missed opportunity on all fronts.