86 minutes, Italian Comedy with English Subtitles

Writer/Director Gennaro Nunziante and Writer/Actor Checco Zalone have paired up together on three previous occasions, but none more successful than this record-breaker at the Italian box office. This new smash-hit comedy, showing as part of the 2016 Lavazza Italian Film Festival and releasing nationally from October the 13th, takes one premise as far as it can possibly go. Checco (Checco Zalone) has had it pretty easy in life and still very much does. At home, there’s a relationship suited to his needs with his girlfriend while still living with his Mother who does everything for him. At work, which is an extremely short bike ride away, Checco just loves his job as a public servant. But Checco’s idyllic existence is given a rude awakening when a new reformist government, who are cracking down on bureaucracy, attempt to make him redundant.

If you like your comedies to take one scenario to the most extreme of places and downright inconceivable, then you’re bound to experience a similarly high rate of laughter as the audience I attended a session with. As long as a very sexist lead male character and an unapologetic one-dimensional taste for comedy don’t hinder the experience. Though QUO VADO? is decidedly far too strained and farcical a film for my liking, full plaudits must go to the screenplay which absolutely goes to every ends of the Earth (almost literally!) in wringing out Checco’s plight to keep his permanent position. From this angle, there is no shortage of or limitations with amusing ideas. It is often what transpires throughout Checco’s adventures, which make up most of its running time that cause the film to go fairly stale.

2.5 out of 5 

QUO VADO? – Film Trailer

Viewer Discretion 
M – Coarse Language 

Moviedoc wishes to thank Paige from Palace Films, Palace Films and Palace Cinemas Kino for the invitation to the Preview Screening of WHERE AM I GOING? / QUO VADO?

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