Fatti Coatti (O Quasi) di Carlo Verdone con Marco Giusti

I was putting in order some books in my library when I noticed this one that I had still to read: Fatti Coatti (O Quasi)

di Carlo Verdone con Marco Giusti. I saw this book wagons of time during these past months; I had picked up this book at the public library when they sold used books. Oh, I absolutely adore all Verdone's movies. They're productions pretty intelligent, never boring, but always fantastically hilarious. I grew up with his movies.

Hilarity, melacholy, phobic episodes, tics and portraits of the italians during these past decades, his movie that will let the viewer thinks a lot. There is much more in Verdone in fact than the simple comicity. I didn't know his life in detail but I can tell you that reading this book I had the impression that was not just exceptional but also under many ways surrounded by a lot of sufferance and various adversities, although the star of Verdone became always more bright with the time. Carlo Verdone has always been affectionate to all the members of his family and will tell in great detail and with great sweetness the various characters who marked his existence; her granny Assunta, her aunt, his uncle Gastone. 

One of the most hilarious episodes when he went to Iran with his dad and both fell pretty sick.

The departure of his granny was a tragedy, but later his dad lost the papers necessary at the people of the Funerary Home for burying the beloved one. A story that took hours, without sorting out anything or finding the necessary papers. When, at the end the dad of Verdone asked of going on with the burial, the arrival at the grave of Assunta meant a moment of profound comicity.Why? Because in the chapel there was written: Barbara Bambini nei Casini; Barbara Children in the Messes. Everyone started to laughing. Sometimes, it is true, funerals have some comical aspects.

Verdone will also speak of his works, his changes and of a different idea of cinema respecting fans at the same time. Not only: Verdone will also tell his beginnings, what it meant meeting a collaborative and pleasant public in grade of appreciating his work and stimulating him positively.His meetings with charismatic people, as Leone was will help him to coming out prepotently at national level, becoming who Verdone is today: one of the most affirmed and passionate actors and directors. His icon and inspiration was Alberto Sordi and the book is dedicated to him.

Verdone will tell the friendship with a friend of him, disappeared abruptly too soon with which there was a great friendship, Francesco; the entrance in scene of De Sica in love with his sister Silvia.

I have had the idea thanks to this book that Verdone is pretty competent regarding illness, trips, friendship, music, work; he wasn't an excellent student, he changed various schools; publics, privates, he wasn't a great scholar maybe but at the end he became a successful man.

Of course you will find in the book the most iconic and hilarious sketches of Verdone.

Beautiful, this book is not so recent, but if you want to laugh or smile intelligently, it's surely for you.

Anna Maria Polidori