2020 · comedy · sci-fi · space
Holiday on Mars
Directed by Neri Parenti1h 33m2020
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to marry the wealthy Bea on Mars. But what could happen if during an excursion into space, something goes wrong and Giulio suddenly becomes a sprightly old man (Massimo Boldi)? Between hilarious unexpected events and amusing misunderstandings, Fabio will find himself dealing with a seventy-year-old son and a marriage that is in danger of jumping ...
Our read: Holiday on Mars (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi · space entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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