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Rating:
The lights come on for the most anticipated cinematic greeting
"Wanting to simplify any mathematical logic of abstruse concepts and lofty philosophies, I know the system, and it is magically reduced to immediacy with a simple and effective CIAO NI'.
This is to satisfy the curious and the incredulous. But here I, known in the world as Renato Fiacchini, due to a postal mix-up Renato Zero, decide to make a movie!
Why a movie?
Why don't you mind your own business?
Let me make the movie, please!
Hurray, I did it (the movie).
It's not a cowboy movie, it's not an animated movie, it's not a porn movie, and maybe, if I think about it, it's not even a movie.
What is it, you ask?
It's the presumption, the greed to poke my nose everywhere.
This time, my nose bumped into the camera.
Result......
(Not available.)
It will be nice for you to help me interpret what I've written and represented on the big screen. It will be nice to discover my guardian named Zucchero, my attendant Mignolo, my manager Danaro, my psychiatrist Super-Ego, and many other faces that I've carried within me for a lifetime and that I want to introduce to you.
Why should you watch this film?
Because I made it for you.
I trust in your severity and in your good taste.
Ciao ni'."
RZ
Considering that this press release is the only worthy thing about this film, I think I could end it here.
The Plot
Someone sends a threatening letter to Renato Zero. After repeated flashbacks to his past, in which Renato revisits his life of sexual isolation in front of the mirror, our hero discovers that his enemy is himself.
The plot worked well for the theatrical show Zerofobia, toured in 1977, but on the cinema screen, it comes across as clumsy.
If you remove all the segments where Renato Zero is filmed during the show for his twenty-eighth birthday at Bussola Domani, there's very little left of the movie; let's say it's more of an immense music video where the thin plot serves only to showcase Renato Zero at his finest in the live show, and it hardly matters if this film will be a box-office hit in Italy, surpassing films like Superman, because some films made history, others served no purpose.
Director: Paolo Poeti
Assistant Director: Neri Parenti
Renato Zero: Himself
Renzo Rinaldi: Super-Ego
Nerina Montagnani: Zucchero
Carlo Monni: Danaro
Franco Garofano: Scientist
Guerrino Crivello: Mignolo
Note: I watched the film on March 23, 1979; the judgment is based on the memories I still have of that afternoon.
Note: I found the movie poster on eBay for only 299 euros plus 25 euros for shipping, there's certainly no shortage of crazies in this world.
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