Directed by: Lina Wertmuller
With: Giancarlo Giannini
Duration: 89 mins

Winner – Best Director – 1972 Cannes International Film Festival.

An hilarious political and sexual farce in which a hardheaded Sicilian metalworker, Mimi (Giancarlo Gianni), refuses to support his local Mafia candidate in an election. Consequently, he relocates to work in Turin, and falls in love with Fiore, a communist girl. His hypocrisy is undone though, for when he returns to Sicily, he finds his wife pregnant to another. In retaliation, he decides to impregnate the wife of the man who slept with his wife, and is later wrongly suspected of killing the man… These predicaments throw Mimi's life into a pile of comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honour - an obsession that has horrendously funny consequences.

Gianni is superb as the stubborn laborer whose refusal to budge on his values ultimately costs him his job and his wife, and leads to a see-it-to-believe-it encounter with a rather large woman. The 1977 U.S. remake, Which Way Is Up?, starred Richard Pryor in the title role.

Digital Presentation
Not screening in Canberra