All Broke

I saw this director's first film entitled When Everything Is Possible (Todo se puede) and I was fascinated by the naturalness of the dialogues and the spontaneity of the actors. Actors that we largely find in All Broke. I find this second film more entertaining than the first, very accurate, has a good rhythm and leaves you in suspense until the end. In some scenes one can identify with the characters; above all I find uncle Carmelo's maid legendary. The exasperation of appearing on social media is part of many people and the film describes it in an ironic way. Nice the character of Max who wants to be unemployed for life by choice. Adorable (and a little naughty) his sister Dolly.

Seen it yesterday. I liked the idea of a busy bar as if it were an office. This is a bit like what happens in reality. For example, the fortune teller, one of the many extravagant characters in the film, would not have been able to do her business by paying the rent of a place. Same thing for the film producer (played by the director) who is desperately trying to produce his first film and who uses the bar to form an unlikely artistic cast. In addition to the vicissitudes of the two bar managers, there is also the parallel story of a ghost who claims to have lived with the film producer in ancient Rome. Fantasy? It depends on your point of view: the discussion on reincarnation is always fascinating. It might seem like a chaotic film but in the end it all adds up. Then the final twist left me stunned.

The film tells of two penniless brothers who inherited the bar from an uncommon aunt, a bar frequented by really strange and funny customers.

The film is particular, because there is a supernatural element in a comic key, with ghosts and fortune tellers.

The movie is funny and brilliant and the actors are good. The situations are deliberately absurd, so absurd as to make you laugh out loud.

I really liked it, I recommend it.

It's an Italian movie, and Italians are the best in comedy movies. This one is inspired by American works, but the location is an Italian restaurant and the characters lives in North Italy.

I absolutely loved this comedy. I think Marcello Crea has done once again a wonderful job. In fact "'All Broke" seem to retrace the same successful path as the previous film "When Everything Is Possible".

A funny, entertaining, brilliant comedy which will make you laugh from the beginning till the end. I found the actors extraordinary too.

I particularly loved the personal assistant of Carmelo, played by the talented actress Viviana Scapini.

Subtitled in 6 different languages, the movie depicts a story set in the beautiful province of Trieste. In an ironic key, a cross-section of today's society split in selfies, broken dreams, power games and money (which is lacking).

The characters in the story come from different places and cultures, a faithful mirror of today's Italy.

You must definitely watch it!

If one thinks of the budget spent to make this good comedy, one can understand how good Marcello Crea has been at creating a plot suspended between the lyrical and the surreal, driving and mixing the multiple voices of the actors in a palpable and smart way. The result is a bittersweet comedy, from which emerges a cross-section of our times, all played out between fiction and reality, aspirations and concreteness. Marcello Crea has the ability to wrap his movie in a romanticism that manages to wring a smile from our lips, on the base of a deep love for cinema and life. A plot to be enjoyed to the full, with the awareness that the distance between reality and dream is less obvious that one might assume.