Valerio Ludini back on TV after the success with A piece of Lundini. From today on RaiPlay (in spring on Rai 3) the first three episodes (of ten) of Complicated mattersa series of investigations carried out by the Roman talent around Italy, between ordinary people, surreal moments, surprising comedy and authenticity.
Lundini leaves a television studio and leads them streamers in the middle of to the streets of Milan, Naples, Turin, of the Italian provinces and even in Albania to measure the temperature of the country in his own way by telling the people he meets: foreign students, those who want to become very rich, those who care about their appearance and those who are reborn after a car accident thanks to chess. And he does it with his witty and light scratch.
Complicated matters: plot focused on chess, boxing and disability
Lundini chose to tell very different stories in 25 minutes. In the third tip from the title That game that reminds of checkers the author, interpreter and director of the program is in Turin where he tries his hand at one story that it has to do with bishops, knights and rooksor chess.
Visit the chess centerhere he meets the president and a ten year old girl who is passionate about the game that Valerio decides to challenge: in 4 moves he is “destroyed” with the so-called “checkmate of the fool”. The comedian gets annoyed like a kid.
Interview the women of the center: «Do you feel accepted because you are the poorest?» He’s ironic. Then it’s up to the real protagonist of the story, Edoardo, a boy left in a wheelchair after a car accident and who was reborn thanks to chess. While Lundini and his guest talk about artificial intelligence, on the street they encounter the difficulties that all disabled people encounter every day.
Among the obstacles there is also a van parked on the sidewalk that the two must navigate. The owner is one of the program’s crew. Instead of apologizing to Edoardo, Lundini does it to his colleague. It is the author’s cynical irony. And we like it that way.
Valerio Lundini. (Rai press office)
Edoardo’s dream is to participate in a world chess championship. Deeply touched, Lundini decides to enroll the boy in Riccione, for a world event. Too bad that because of his broken cell phone he didn’t see that it was a demonstration chess and boxing. How will it end for Edoardo?
Lundini and profound lightness
Lundini tells reality through his comedy of a situation that surprises by mixing surreal, truth and nonsense. A witty short circuit which triggers laughter and simultaneously activates reflection. As Simona Ercolani of Stand By Me, producer of, says Complex matters: «Valerio manages to touch on delicate, controversial and complex topics with rare lightness and depth With him you laugh and think.”
And you never know where it wants to end up, because halfway through the episode the tone changes unpredictably. «Lundini demonstrates the ability to suddenly change tone, unlike A piece of Ludini which was a program of pure entertainment”, concludes Ercolani.
Valerio Lundini in an episode of “Complicated Matters”. (Rai press office)
All episodes of Complicated matters
The first three episodes of Complicated matters they will be available from today on RaiPlay. Finding a home is a theme talks about the housing problem in Naples, then Ludini deals with beauty in Beauty, or rather Beautiness and of disability and chess in That game that reminds of checkers.
From the January 19th will be available: Becoming, why not, very rich, Video Killerd the Trap Star And Where you go, there are customson suspended coffee in Naples. From January 26th: You don’t enter the 80s alivecome on sixty-year-olds who still live on the memories of the paninari, Roman holidays, The infamous filter bubbles And I’m just leaving, an episode in which the author moves to Albania. «The titles are more beautiful than the episodes», if Valerio Lundini says it, do we believe him or not?
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