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D’Alatri’s sexy comedy

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Alessandro D'Alatri’s new film Commediasexi [+see also:
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– to be released on 350 screens on December 15 by 01 Distribution – will certainly give the two "Christmas films" by the recently artistically separated Boldi-De Sica (see news) a run for their money.

A highly skilled commercials director and discoverer of new talent (to name but one impressive actor: Kim Rossi Stuart, in his 1994 film No Skin), D'Alatri has tailored his sixth film around the prince of popular Italian television, Paolo Bonolis, making his film acting debut in the role of a slimy Member of Parliament grappling with a law on families. The theme is highly current, considering that a civil union law is part of the new government’s agenda.

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With a nod to the great Alberto Sordi, and paying homage to the traditional “commedia italiana” with a socially critical bent, the “Honorable” Bonolis takes orders from the higher-ups of the Church while cheating on his wife Stefania Rocca, fostering a relationship with a stunning starlet (the blond, former dancer Elena Santarelli).

The bright lights of Rome, the capital of Italian politics and show business, seem under threat of scandal, compelling the parliamentarian to take action in the form of ruthlessly manipulating his chauffer (an extraordinary Sergio Rubini, the film’s true star).

"My films are ‘political’ in the sense that they are about something ignored by politics: people’s lives", said the director. "With this film, I expressed the urgency of establishing contact with the ‘people’. For too long now, a certain intelligentsia has closed itself off from the tastes of the masses. But making films without an audience makes no sense". Produced by Cattleya, Commediasexi has already been sold to Switzerland and Germany and, according to one of its producers, Marco Chimenz, could also be appreciated in France and the US.

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(Translated from Italian)

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