TOSTOLFO
Genre: sentimental-poetic comedy
By and with Gianni Di Gregorio. With Stefania Sandrelli, Alberto Testone, Gigio Morra, Alfonso Santagata, Andrea Cosentino, Simone Colombani
Stefania Sandrelli and Gianni Di Gregorio in “Astolfo”
Gianni Di Gregorio continues in his gallery of “almost self-portraits”struggling with the joys of old age and the pains of everyday life, which here take the form of the new wife of the hostess, determined to get back the apartment where “the professor” lived a lifetime.
Fortunately Astolfo (Ariosto name that hides noble origins) he remembers a family home in the hills and moves there, finding in order: an abusive tenant, a profiteering priest and a cheating mayor. But luckily also a sweet and charming grandmother like Stefania Sandrelli.
Stefania Sandrelli and Gianni Di Gregorio in a scene from the film
Protagonist, as well as director, of his films, Di Gregorio has made of his submissive and accommodating figure a kind of brand image: the problems (and there will be many) do not affect his resilience capacitystruggling with the selfishness and greed of people, but also with the discovery that the sweetness of falling in love is not precluded to those who have overcome the “door”.
Thus, mixing his instinctively (and delicately) anarchist spirit with the invigorating grace that can give heartbeats, Di Gregorio ends up forgetting (almost) the pleasure of wine to give us the dream of a life that still knows how to blossom.
For those who want to rediscover the joy of living.
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