CENTO SUNDAYS
Type: existential-financial comedy
Direction: Antonio Albanese. With Antonio Albanese, Donatella Bartoli, Liliana Bottone, Sandra Ceccarelli, Bebo Storti, Giulia Lazzarini, Elio De Capitani
For theformer metalworker Antonio Riva It’s the chance he’s been waiting for all his life: accompanying your daughter to the altar who is finally getting marriedto. And of course pay for the reception because “it’s up to the father of the bride”.
But when he shows up at the bank to draw on his savings, he discovers that his bonds have become stocks: with his consent certainly, but without really having any idea of what it meant, trusting the bank manager. It is the beginning of an odyssey that will see the protagonist sink further and further into anguish and tragedy.
Antonio Albanese, Liliana Bottone and Sandra Ceccarelli in “One Hundred Sundays” (photo by Claudio Iannone).
Surprising those who only want him to be a comedian, Albanese writes, directs and interprets what many Italians have experienced firsthand in the years in which certain banks played unscrupulously with finance, ending up destroying the savings (and lives) of their customers.
He tells it from the point of view of one of the many victims, incredulous that “his” bank could have deceived him at that point. And he does so by often blocking the camera, as if it were – like him – “incapable” of moving, of reacting in the face of something that seems impossible (despite the many warnings) and which instead turns out to be tragically true.
For those who want to discover a different but equally good Albanian.
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