Piero arriva a Parigi da Luino dopo aver vinto un torneo di biliardo con gli amici. In treno incontra il famoso iettatore Ramazzini ed ha quindi numerosi incidenti che culminano col suo arresto e il ritiro del passaporto da parte del commissario Juvet. Uscito, trova casualmente ospitalità presso la signora Lenormand e conosce la bella pittrice Valentine. Ambedue le donne sono l...
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, ...
《面包与巧克力》的主人公戛罗法尼是一个普通的意大利人,他没有太多文化,他为了生活而劳动,侨居瑞士。他只想“打工、存钱、养家”。但是,他的简单想法同他所生活的具体环境却产生了矛盾。这种矛盾最初纯属个人生活方面的,但是产生矛盾的基础根源却是必然的:他孤独,无法得到他喜爱的家庭生活,因此,休息日他去公园游憩。他想同孩子玩,但是,孩子不懂意大利语,并不理解他的心情,而躲开了。他很伤心。在街上,他的意大利小市民性格又使他忘了瑞士严格的卫生条例,而在街上小便。这笑料当然让人情不自禁地发笑,笑他作为身居异国的普通小市民的苦恼与陋习。
但是,作者布鲁萨蒂并不满足于将影片的噱头、笑料更多地集中在主人公戛罗法尼个人的性格和生活习惯上。戛罗法尼企望发财致富,将积蓄毫无条件地交给意大利籍老板。他原想语言不再成为一种障碍,他以为自己有了平步青云、改变自己生活的机会,但是,老板...