The Worst Week of My Life, directed by Alessandro Genovesi, was
a hit comedy in Italy – being based on a popular UK television sitcom
of the same name helps – which I am sure will reap similar rewards at
the Lavazza Italian Film Festival.
The premise is simple. Paolo (Fabio De Luigi) is a 40-year-old
advertising agent who is a week shy of marrying his beautiful fiancé
Margherita (Cristiana Capotondi). Their excitement for married life in
not shared by Margherita’s eccentric upper class parents (Monica
Guerritore and Antonio Catania) – and a visit to their lovely home sets
in motion a week-long series of escalating disasters that not only
severely dents their impression of him, but poses a challenge to the
loving couple’s big day.
This often-hilarious slapstick comedy makes use of awkward humour in
the vein of the familiar pre-wedding disaster/meet the parents’ mayhem.
It’s pretty funny for a while – especially the first two days spent at
Paolo’s future in-laws place – but the laughs do dry up significantly as
the build-up of situations become increasingly implausible. This
applies to what transpires, how they are resolved, and how much his
wife-to-be forgives him. But, for pure escapist fun this delivers more
than not.
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