Carlo Buccirosso Movies

Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Family Friend) writes and directs this cinematic portrait of seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti, whose controversial legacy peaked when he was tried for Mafia ties and subsequently acquitted. A leader with close ties to the Vatican, Andreotti was also tried and acquitted for the murder of an Italian journalist, and remains a senator for life. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Post-operative paralysis gets played for laughs in this broad comedy starring popular Italian comic Vincenzo Salemme (who also directed and wrote the screenplay). Active and fun-loving Pericle (Salemme) finds himself confined to a wheelchair when an operation on his spine is botched by a careless doctor from France. An angry Pericle decides to sue, but to make his case he knows he'll need the help of his friend Mario (Carlo Buccirosso), a respected surgeon. Mario is not inclined to talk, however, as a major promotion is being dangled before him by the hospital where the surgery was performed as an inducement to keep quiet. Pericle decides to pay Mario an unexpected visit while he's on vacation in the hope he can be persuaded to help, but before long he finds himself travelling with a sizable entourage, including a beautiful physical therapist (Sabrina Ferilli), her close friend (Manuela Arcuri), Pericle's attorney (Maurizio Casagrande), and a pair of maiden aunts (Massimo Ceccherini and Nando Paone). Co-stars Sabrina Ferilli and Manuela Arcuri are best known in Italy as models, appearing in a series of top-selling pin-up calendars. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Italian playwright turned director Vincenzo Salemme's sophomore effort is a bizarre romance between a bereaved widower and a rakish Mafioso libertine, both of whom are supposedly heterosexual. Mobster scion Bruno (Salemme) runs into a widowed policeman whose dead wife's eyes were donated to him thanks to a transplant. They experience a strange attraction that neither party can explain, thanks to Italy's organ donor anonymity laws. Soon, to the shock and disgust of his gangster family and peevish bride-to-be, Bruno begins acting in ways unbecoming a future godfather. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi