Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne

"Commedia all'italiana is a formula. All sorts of different films can be included in it. The key word is italiana: it is in our nature to mix the comic with the serious. Of course, not all the filmmakers in the peninsula fall within the current. Because you need that extra little a touch of irony. This is what Germi, Scola, Monicelli had" (Dino Risi, Rome, June 1993). In Risi's work, there is of the pleasure of telling very entertaining stories with a wealth of human and moral implications. He does this with brio, aggression, elegance, casualness, a total lack of concern for technique and with exactness in all the details. He is the only commedia all'italiana auteur capable of avoiding rhetoric, vulgarity and redundancy. This documentary sheds light on the art and background of this storyteller, deeply -rooted in the issues of his times.