2019 · comedy · music · political
Welcome Back Mr. President
Directed by Giuseppe G. Stasi, Giancarlo Fontana1h 36m2019
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
Our read: Welcome Back Mr. President (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · music · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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