Casual and likeable, capable of making a virtue out of poverty, 'Will artichokes grow in Mimongo?' has the astuteness to put together old and new in a captivating assembly: on the one hand the juvenile jargon, a little sexual nonchalance ; on the other a positive character to identify with, that of the young man who does not want to bow to the moral meanness of metropolitan non-life. The air of the time is perceived in the relationships between the sexes, where it is always the female characters who hold the decision-making power on feelings and things to do. Not to mention the attractive power of a disheartening topic such as youth unemployment.
It has an ironic and iconic, amusing, and nonchalant trait. It reminds of American movie "Clerks" but seen from an Italian, Mediterranean point of view. In Italy people have salaries of starvation, but in the end you have the sun most everyday in a year. Everyone can afford a portion of pasta, so smile, the sun is shining.
It has an ironic and iconic, amusing, and nonchalant trait. It reminds of American movie "Clerks" but seen from an Italian, Mediterranean point of view. In Italy people have salaries of starvation, but in the end you have the sun most everyday in a year. Everyone can afford a portion of pasta, so smile, the sun is shining.
