Salvatore Ficarra
A man goes to work, sees a boat for sale. He dreams of a life to leave behind. He leaves, the dream gives way to memory, the mistral forces him to a landing of fortune. A woman, another story, a new beginning? As in an Escher drawing, everything starts again where it seemed to have ended up
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems
Old comedian Aldo Baglio is brought by his children to a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and colleagues Giovanni and Giacomo.
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director’s artistic defeat in an Italy that recognised itself in this “Berlusconian culture” for a long time, and probably still does.
Salvo e Valentino sono due amici che hanno una piccola società di servizi per il turismo. Il loro mezzo, un restaurato e coloratissimo autobus inglese di qualche anno fa, trasporta i turisti tra i monumenti di Torino. Valentino è abbastanza timido e riservato, mentre Salvo è parecchio intraprendente e sfacciato. Alle loro dipendenze c'è Natascha, una giovane e bella guida turistica, che non conosce però nessuna lingua straniera. È chiaro, quindi, qual è stato il criterio di selezione e, soprattutto, chi è stato il selezionatore! Valentino ha una relazione stabile con Gisella: la sua fidanzata storica, che ama di un amore morboso, totalizzante e oppressivo. Quando la storia arriva al capolinea, entra in gioco il fidato amico Salvo, con l’obiettivo di trovargli una donna che lo faccia tornare a vivere e a sorridere. Per contro, Valentino vuole mettere fine alla vita scanzonata e frivola di Salvo, e anche lui vuole trovare la compagna della vita all’amico e collega di lavoro...
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
Ficarra & Picone return to the scene with a new work entitled I'm These things happen and directed by Giambattista Avellino. The center is the man and the phases of its most salient life: love lost or regain, the love that makes us suffer because "the difficulty is not engaged but let ...", love of which we do not notice, "I love her, but I look around and there are hundreds of females, and I am the hunter"; the death of a relative who becomes a spectacle, because the funeral in Sicily can only be representation. But Ficarra & Picone go further, they discover that there is another kind of love, another kind of death and another rebirth. She teaches him a mysterious relative, Uncle Pino.
