Italian film industry "blessed" us with countless films of an impossibly crude and vulgar nature disguised as "social satire." Fortunately, now and then it also produced films like "In Nome Del Popolo Italiano." The film is the usual social satire that depicts rich people as the eternally "evil" ones, out to oppress the people, and to exempt - or try to exempt - themselves from the law. However, what makes INDPI so refreshing, and different from other films in the genre is that it also shows us that the, uh, proletariat can be just as bad, especially when pushed by the bigotry of a rigid ideology. I totally agree with Risi's comment that, if forced to choose, he'd rather be the openly corrupt guy than the hypocritically ambiguous one.
Gassman and Tognazzi are brilliant, as usual. Or at least, as usual when given the chance to stray from the sex-farce-cum-social-indictment silliness the Italian film industry was so painfully famous in the 60s and 70s.
This is a good film. Give it a chance.
Gassman and Tognazzi are brilliant, as usual. Or at least, as usual when given the chance to stray from the sex-farce-cum-social-indictment silliness the Italian film industry was so painfully famous in the 60s and 70s.
This is a good film. Give it a chance.