Where Are You Going on Holiday?

Where Are You Going on Holiday?
(Dove vai in vacanza?)
Directed by Mauro Bolognini
Luciano Salce
Alberto Sordi
Written by Alberto Sordi, Rodolfo Sonego, Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Salce, Sandro Continenza, Ruggero Maccari, Mauro Bolognini
Starring Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio, Stefania Sandrelli, Gigi Reder
Music by Ennio Morricone
Piero Piccioni
Cinematography Sergio D'Offizi
Danilo Desideri
Luciano Tovoli
Edited by Antonio Siciliano
Nino Baragli
Release dates
 1978
Running time
 153 min
Country Italy
Language Italian-English

Where Are You Going on Holiday, also known as Dove vai in vacanza?, is a 1978 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Mauro Bolognini, Luciano Salce and Alberto Sordi.[1]

Plot

The film is divided into three episodes.

Sarò tutta per te

Enrico intends to recover the loving relationship with his ex-girlfriend Giuliana. She agrees and the two go in the house of her, but all of a sudden Enrico realizes he is not alone. In fact the young friends of Giuliana have reached the villa in the evening and plan many evening parties: typical of the flower children of that period. Enrico, on the threshold of fifty, feels him excluded and displaced, completely alien to the new juvenile behavior and his only instinct is to make love with Giuliana. When she agrees exasperated the poor Enrico blatantly fails to satisfy her in an embrace and so their relationship breaks down again.

Sì buana

Arturo, said "Wilson", tells her story to a wealthy gentleman who requested him; the two are in Africa, in the jungle, and so Wilson begins his sad story. Arturo is a modest employee of a travel agency whose the director (Gigi Reder), to get more money, decides to organize an inexpensive trip to the Sava to hunt lions. All people in the world know that it is forbidden, but the director decides to make an exception to the rule, because with this method he would surely enticed wealthy clients money. So the gang arrives in Africa and the director starts the hunt. Wilson, included in the tour as an expert local guide speaking English, is convinced by the seductive wife of an industrial manager to procure for him a lion to kill. Wilson don't want to disobey the laws of hunting, and so to satisfy the industry gets a lion died of old age and stages a farce during a hunt to give satisfaction to the hunter. But the ruse is discovered and the whole agency is alleged; Wilson also lose the amount of money offered to him by the industrialist reward for the hunt.

Le vacanze intelligenti

The simpletons greengrocers Remo and Augusta are convinced by their three sons to embark on a tour that includes visits to Italy in museums, churches, theaters and places of modern art. The two don't want this, but they're so proud of the professional skills of their children who decide to deal with this sacrifice. So Augusta and Remo set out on an Etruscan town in Tuscany and then to many other destinations to Venice, not understanding anything about modern art or futurists concerts. Remo and Augusta however are increasingly convinced that the children have decided this trip for their own good, and so they continue until the two get fed up and decide to go back to their old life. Back home, they discover that the furniture is completely changed and has become exactly like that of the modern houses of the hippies of the Seventies. The two simpletons, while regretting the past dear, also accept this deprivation.

Cast

Sarò tutta per te

(segment directed by Mauro Bolognini)

Sì buana

(segment directed by Luciano Salce)

Le vacanze intelligenti

(segment directed by Alberto Sordi)

References

  1. ↑ Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059350.

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