Anni 90 is the comedy that makes us understand what was happening in Italy thirty years ago

From a strictly cinematic point of view the premise of 90’s has noble rootsinspired by another episodic comedy to which Oldoini himself is very attached: The monstersa 1963 film by Dino Risi starring two protagonists such as Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, of which the director from La Spezia made a spiritual sequel in 2009 entitled Monsters today. If the cynicism of 90’s he is caciarone, goliardic, in line with other comic products of the periodthat of The monsters it is so sharp and anomalous which in tandem with the versatility of the Tognazzi/Gassman duo makes it a milestone of Italian cinema: also one of the cruellest scenes of 90’sthe one who mimics the Telefono Azzurro with the son of Nino Frassica beaten by the latter together with Ezio Greggio, does not come close to the ruthless indifference of Tognazzi who, watching with his wife a Nazi shooting projected on the big screen of a cinema, proposes to the woman to redo the wall of their villa like the one that can be glimpsed behind the convicts.

In a rare combination of timing, immediacy and authorial dignity 90’s offers under the mask of disengaged comedy a faithful portrait of the year in which the Italy we know today was bornwithout the documentary pretensions of products with a similar setting like 1992 – The series, but without at the same time slipping into the farcical like SPQR – 2000 and ½ years ago, comedy by the duo Boldi & De Sica of much bigger grain that transposes the events of Tangentopoli into ancient Rome. Enrico Oldoini gives us this way an unexpected starting point for understanding what was happening in Italy thirty years agowith the authenticity of a TV show like Telemike that Boldi, at a certain point in the film, can’t wait to go home to watch.