I keep wondering why this mediocre, schlock-romantic movie has attracted so much attention. The story-line is mind-bogglingly silly, the characterization is unsubtle as well as jejune, the general level of acting is crude. Perhaps the worst example of poor acting is provided by the principal anti-heroine, Angela, who sounds like a robot mechanically reciting an ill-digested text. The principal anti-hero, Nello, must surely claim the lowest IQ ever found in the teaching profession in Italian state schools. What's more, this movie consists of a series of commonplaces, clichés and urban myths badly cobbled together in the naive attempt to provide sensation-seeking material (a typical one being the claim that after a papal election all cardinals check the newly- elected colleague's manly attributes to verify his gender). An altogether disappointing experience.
