While waiting for the release of his new film Io e te bisogna parla, the film to watch on TV tonight is Through friendship. It is the sixth film as director and star of Alessandro Siani, the neo-melancholic Neapolitan. Released in theaters in February 2023, first showing on TV tonight, you can “taste” it in the clip below.
Through Friendship airs tonight, on Rai 1 at 9.30pm. It is also visible simultaneously streaming su RaiPlay. If you miss it, you can find it on the platform Prime Video. 96 minutes long, it has supporting actors, Max Tortora in the lead, its reason for being and vision. For those who are nostalgic for the 70s and 80s, the gem is review Pippo Santanastaso…
Lorenzo (Siani) has invented a rather original agency, through which he offers himself as a friend for hire. He knows how to listen, advise, keep quiet, console and his enterprise, which is called Through friendshiphas a fair amount of success. That is until they are actually the his family members to ask him for assistance. The owner (Tortora) of the sweet factory where the whole family is employed, suffers from depression. And has decided to close its doors. It is necessary a friend of the heart to change his mind. Making him rediscover the pleasures of life. Who else but him?
A flashback. When will the TV was black and whiteoe, as a comic part of the duo The Santonastaso Brothersparticipated in Do you like my face? (among the authors the great Marcello Marchesi) and Sunday in (this one in color). Surreal, comedians and singers (his brother Mario, guitarist, accompanied him), from Piacenza and Naples, the brothers went from TV to the Derby in Milan. The “band” was the one with them, Ric and Gian, Cochi and Renato, The Owls... At the cinema, in the following years, he acted as a “sidekick” to Celentano (The Taming of the Shrew, Asso) and worked, among others, with Dino Risi and Guido Chiesa. From then to today, all the fictions he participated in have been “interlocked” (A Doctor in the Family, Casa Vianello, Inspector Coliandro, Quo Vadis Baby?, Don Matteo)…
