Adriano Celentano
Yuppi Du

If you want to watch a quirky, bizarre, anarchic, and experimental film, there's no need to look for an underground film from some unknown part of the world. You don't even have to necessarily watch a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, because here in Italy, we had Celentano who gave us Yuppi Du! The most delirious, ramshackle, eccentric, and experimental musical of all time! Yuppi Du is pure cinematic anarchy. A free product, outside any kind of scheme, which will no longer be able to exist in the world of cinema. Written, directed, performed, scored, and edited by the most eccentric of Italian showbiz personalities. Celentano reaches the peak of his creativity in this work. The only rule for the "molleggiato" is: no rules! The film is a continuous succession of surreal scenes, unheard dialogues, constant changes in narrative rhythm, mystically-tinged ravings, all presented with an arrhythmic editing that ranges from dilated times to cartoon-like rhythm (this film showcases Celentano's editing skills), a true organized mess!

The film immediately takes off in its bizarreness with opening credits, among the most beautiful and original ever seen, where you see the "molleggiato" writhing with his usual moves while sinking with the boat, and right from the first images, a certain atmosphere of "anything could happen in this film" begins to permeate, and indeed, it does.

Adriano plays the part of a man who, after marrying his adorable wife (the beautiful Claudia Mori), must deal with his ex-girlfriend who suddenly returns from the dead (I mean... she wasn't dead). A pretext to stage craziness of all kinds. From bizarre musical choreographies to the usual Celentano environmentalist messages and more. Some scenes are legendary: the scene of a tragedy relived through the flashback of the unfortunate one, contrasting with images of Celentano passing knife strikes between his fingers until he stabs his own hand, or the cartoon-style scene where two friends try to distract Claudia Mori with a series of borderline absurd gags. Celentano mimicking the symbol of the cross with his body and being nailed by a spike through his hand in Jesus Christ style. The memorable dance with a semi-nude Charlotte Rampling. In its anarchic and counter-current narrative style, Yuppi Du is a masterpiece! A work of art that was literally destroyed at its time but that, as often happens, was reevaluated over the years. The elements that distinguish this film have literally disappeared in modern cinematography, and this is a shame! Impossible to think that a producer from a major cinematic company today could come up with the idea of producing a film with anarchic content like Yuppi Du, it would be pure heresy, unthinkable! Yet this film expresses what cinema should be: freedom of expression!

Yuppi Du was broadcast on television four times (Monday, December 21, 1987, 12 years after its release!!! - October 1988 - Saturday, January 7, 1995 - January 1, 1997), there are no commercial editions available, fans have been waiting for a DVD edition for years, but there's still no news about it. It seems that the king of the ignorants doesn't want to decide to commercialize his most accomplished and desired work. This aspect has only increased the legendary aura surrounding the film.

To be found on the internet or recorded during a rare TV broadcast.

To be studied in schools.