Sole a catinelle

Sole a catinelle
Screenplay by Gennaro Nunziante
Checco Zalone
Starring Checco Zalone
Miriam Dalmazi
Orsetta De Rossi
Music by Checco Zalone
Distributed by Medusa Film
Release date
  • 2013 (2013)
Running time
 90 min
Country Italy
Language Italian
Budget €8.000.000 ($8.688.000)
Box office €52.205.164 ($56.700.000)

Sole a catinelle (lit. Sun[light] in basins, modeled on "Pioggia a catinelle", "Rain in basins", which means that it is strongly raining) is a 2013 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Nunziante.[1][2]

Plot

In the middle of the economic crisis, Checco Zalone is a Southern Italian living in Milan together with his wife, Daniela, and son, Nicolò. Checco starts working for a company which sells "Fata Morgana" vacuum cleaners (parody of the popular Italian Folletto, meaning "Pixie", cleaners), and has soon success by selling them at all his relatives who emigrated in Northern Italy, becoming the most successful seller in few time, and starting asking for loans to buy presents for Daniela and Nicolò to a company named "FidoFly". Later, with the success of Vileda robot cleaners and his family having enough Fatas, he starts earning less money, to the point that FidoFly starts distraining the things he bought, while Daniela decides to divorciate. Checco, forced to eat at charity organization Caritas's places, ironically swears to his son that, if he will have all his school results at 10 (the maximum in Italy), he will have a fantastic vacation with him, but, however, Nicolò succeeds in this goal, forcing Checco to take him on vacation during the summer holidays. Checco, who, if will not sell seven cleaners, will be fired, travels with him to his family's home region of Molise to sell some. He decides to stay at the house of his extremely cheap (when Nicolò discovers that his Wii could not work with her television, she is shocked by seeing the duo boringly using it to play Checco's old Home Pong) aunt, Rita, who says him that all the other relatives are dead or emigrated to Canada, except for Checco's cousin Onofrio, who already has a Fata.

During the night, Nicolò phones to Daniela telling her that Molise is extremely boring and she agrees with her friend Soukaina that her family will meet the duo at Piombino, Tuscany, to depart for a better vacation with Nicolò, something that mellows his father. That night, the house is extremely cold (Rita does not want to pay for a heating system), and Checco finds an old electric stove, which he switches on. The next day, they travel to Piombino, but, seeing that Checco is sad, Nicolò escapes and returns with him. Driving, the two notice a "Zoo" sign, and enter in a courtyard, where Checco meets a boy which does not answer to his questions about the zoo. Checco shouts his sentences and the boy, Lorenzo, finally answers that the Zoo "is here". Checco later meets Zoe, Lorenzo's French Italian mother and director of the "Zoo" (stylized with an "E" inside the second "O") arts exibition, and the boy's psychologist, who suggests to the former to invite the duo to stay with them (who are extremely rich), to help Lorenzo with his disturb, which is later revealed to be selective mutism caused by his filmmaker father, Ludovico, who is filming a film named "Eutanasia mon amour" (a drama-like metaphor about euthanasia, in which Checco tries to act, but is soon rejected), and which is the only thing che cares about. The characters of Vittorio Manieri, a rich Italian enterpreur and owner of most of Riccardo (Zoe's defunct father, which's inability to "speak" is misunderstood by Checco as the cause of Lorenzo's mutism)'s former companies (including the company that intends to fire Daniela and many other people), Juliette Marin, Zoe's mother and Vittorio's mistress, and Piergiorgio Bollini, a close friend of Vittorio. The former explains Checco that he and Juliette, despite of Zoe's intentions, want to buy FidoFly, but Zoe succeeds in nulling the affair when Checco says that that the company is about to fail due to people that “has to pay 48 rows” (like himself) and the fact that FidoFly later finds itself in that situation impresses Manieri and Bollini, who ask him what is his enterpreur field, and, as he answers that it is the “cleaning” field, they misunderstand that he “cleans” “dirty” (illegally earnt) money and reveal their true nature: they are dishonest freemasons constantly tracked by the Guardia di Finanza, but both Checco and his boss, Dr. Surace, do not understand their dishonesty, then the former can be sure of not being fired.

Checco soon falls in love and with Zoe, becoming her fiancé despite already being with Daniela, and, when she sees Checco on television with Manieri and hears about his relationship with Zoe, she forces a syndacalist from her factory to become her sexual partner. Checco discovers and, feeling extremely sad (with the excuse of not having any sexual intercourses with Zoe), returns to Milan, where he realizes that Daniela divorced because of his making her work too much. Circa one month later, the two masons have been arrested (probably because the Guardia di Finanza heard their plans while Checco was using Vittorio’s phone to speak with Surace) and Zoe has acquired Daniela’s company, and invites to speak to the workers Checco, who, dressed as a Soviet minister and with Nicolò carrying a communist flag, reads on a replica of the Little Red Book a message to Daniela about the fact that he wants to be a better man and helping her to work. The two fall in love again and Checco becomes a functionary in the company. An epilogue shows us that Checco and Nicolò forgot to switch down the shove at Rita’s house and she had a cardiac arrest after she saw the 89-euros electric bill. She is on a bed with a machine monitoring her values, but, when she discovers that it is electrical, she asks Checco to shut it down, in a scene which comically looks like Eutanasia mon amour.

Cast

Reception

The film grossed €18.6 million on its opening weekend.[1] It was number-one for three consecutive weekends. It grossed a total of US$56.7 million, and became the highest-grossing domestic film in Italy in 2013.[1] It is the second highest-grossing film in Italy only to be surpassed by Quo Vado? starring Checco Zalone.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Anderson, Ariston (January 4, 2016). "Italy Box Office: Local Hit 'Quo Vado?' Sets Opening Records". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ Lyman, Eric J. (November 4, 2013). "Italian Comedy 'Sun in Buckets' Sets New Opening Weekend Sales Record". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
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