Giulio Manfredonia
Qualunquemente

I left the cinema feeling disoriented; with a sense of unease, bitterness, and anger that I hadn't felt in a long time after watching a film.

Let's be clear: the film is very entertaining, there are scenes for the anthology, Albanese is very good at playing a truly disgusting character, but also very funny at the same time, and the work, born from a character created for TV sketches a few years ago, is undoubtedly (without a doubt, the protagonist would say) and unexpectedly successful, coherent and complete.

However, it is above all the distorted, deformed, and merciless portrayal of a country adrift that emerges from the film; in fact, perhaps the reality we are living surpasses, in some ways, the monstrosities depicted in the plot.

The film that came to mind the day after watching this "Qualunquemente" was Dino Risi's masterpiece "I Mostri" from 1963: the depiction of individual and social horrors in an ironic, sarcastic, melancholic, and often absolutely comical atmosphere connects them, thus placing the film in the best tradition of true Italian comedy.

So, probably watching this film is like looking at oneself in a funhouse mirror; hoping we haven't been stripped of the necessary ability to feel indignation and anger to fight a reflected image we must reject with all our might.

"..I do not feel Italian, but fortunately or unfortunately, fortunately or unfortunately, fortunately... fortunately I am." Giorgio Gaber