This film really only needed a one word review.
Hilarious!!
As a first time critic a part of me hoped there would be dozens of filmmaking flaws for me to write about…. I will have to wait for the next Superman attempt.
WOMEN DRIVE ME CRAZY finds its comic feet within the first few lines and sets a pace which is maintained throughout its entirety.
It is possible throughout the film for you to find points where you would have liked to have possibly seen an idea, character or moment explored a little further. The scene where our hero borrows his mother’s car without her permission was a perfect example of this.
The ‘drama enthusiast’ within was crying out to know more than the brief couple of lines indicating the car was important, why did the mother go to the extremes she went too once she was convinced it had been stolen. That is the moment you realize no one is listening to your inner ‘drama enthusiast’ because everyone including your inner ‘lover of comedy’ is too busy laughing.
That is the aspect of comic film making that ‘Women Drive Me Crazy’ achieves with ease, audience forgiveness. If you can make an audience laugh you can get away with a lot, the more you make them laugh the more you will be forgiven for any lapses in story or character.
Director Fausto Brizzi gave the right amount of screen time to each character and the final scenes were quite beautiful with the appropriate amount of pathos for the genre. I enjoyed the journey of each character and thought each little story was beautifully wrapped up – with one exception, the character of Giuli played by the stunning Valeria Billelo. Throughout the entire film we saw a beautiful, forgiving and loving person who had left her violent partner with absolutely no indication within her character that she would ever take him back. SPOILER ALERT There was a noticeable convenience when Giulia left our leading man in the final moments, forcing him back to his true love Roberta played by Margarita Vicario …
All in all I believe WOMEN DRIVE ME CRAZY has the potential to strike a chord with a wide audience. It would not surprise me at all if there is already a Hollywood reproduction in the pipelines. If that happens, for art sake see the original first.