Distinguishing Features: Beautiful

Successful writer Mattia (Adriano Celentano) can hardly save himself from women; his pheromone vapours are obviously out of this world. Whether in the park, at the newspaper kiosk, in a taxi, in the disco or on the street, Mattia is the most sought-after man material. Mattia takes care of his cheeky neighbour Michela (Federica Moro), who then quickly plays his daughter and quickly puts off future woman from his sight. The constantly controlled womanizer does not want to admit that Mattia and Michela have long since sparked, after all, he is far more than twice as old.

The usual Celentano quality always grins slightly crookedly to cheesy, must think that happiness is by no means far away, but is already very close to him. There is a 27-year difference in age between the grumpy Mattia and the brisk Michela - he's about 45, she 18.

In the case with Celentano comedies of those days, romance plays third fiddle at best anyway. The comedies, which were always successful in cinemas at the time, were, like various other Italian and French parallel works at least in West Germany anyway only to what they were and are, through the dubbing arts of the Berlin based Rainer Brandt. Its always flippant pun paired with Thomas Danneberg's art of speaking, which fits Celentano like ass on bucket, resulting in just the mixture that distinguished a veritable film contribution by this actor.

The narrative technique formulated as a retrospective gives the whole thing an unexpected touch of subtle competence.