For his fourth film the witness returns to his native Palermo, and at this tour in front of his indignant lens there is religion. …May God forgive everyone is the fourth Pif film, at the century Pierfrancesco Diliberto, taken from his 2018 novel and inspired by a meeting with Pope Francis. The film, a production Our Films and Piperfilm, is at the cinema from 2 April.
Che Dio perdona a tutti: commedia degli errori spirituali
Arturo is a fifty-year-old real estate agent living in Palermo. Eternal “zitellone”, however, is a life full of business, the soccer tournament among the city agencies and above all an immense, unmeasured passion for pastry, of which Arturo became a fine connoisseur and content creator. All this at least until Flora meets: beautiful, interesting and above all an extraordinary pastry chef. The lightning strike is inevitable, but there is only one problem: Flora is a fervent Catholic, as well as her whole family. It is so Arturo, that the divine did not think of us since 1982, in order not to lose the beloved will initially embark on a maldestra dissimulazione that, unexpectedly, will turn into a spiritual path full of surprises under the guidance of a scanned Argentine Pope.
Sociologia leggera
That God forgives everyone is a canonical example of Pif’s modus operandi that we have learned to appreciate since the days of The Witness: an attempt to genuinely throw a look of sociological matrix on things wrapped in a light container and, in this case, very sweet. Faced with the lens of Diliberto in this case there is no divine as Catholicism as an eminently cultural phenomenon, a humus of symbols and ways of feeling in which we Italians are immersed in a way that goes far beyond personal faith.
Un po’ incostante
And if God forgives everyone is a mature example of this way of making cinema, he also begins to show the limits. Because if the film is light and ironic, Palermo beautiful as never before and its divine sweets, the comedy element of errors turns out to be somewhat repetitive despite the central twist. But above all, it leaves us with a slight feeling of dissatisfaction that leaves room for a question: what would happen if Pif applied his sociological gaze with a little more rigour?
Il cast
Pif It is Arturo, real estate agent whose only true passion is the Sicilian pastry shop. Giusy Buscemi plays Flora, the heir of the most important pastry family in Palermo, which is opening up a reality in order to express its spirit of innovation. Carlos Hipólito is the (never appointed but clearly of matrix Bergogliana) Pope: sweet but shady, reflective and rich of joie de vivre. Francesco Scianna is Tommaso, friend and head of Arturo, as well as prototype of the traditional Sicilian man, with all its contradictions. In the film also Tommy Kuti as Sunkaru, a silent migrant temporarily welcomed by Arturo.
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