It’s coming up to election time and the country’s biggest opposition party isn’t doing so well. Its leader Enrico Oliveri can’t take the pressure, and he disappears. Fearing a scandal, the party’s éminence grise uses the politician’s look-alike brother to fill the gap.

In Roberto Andò’s riotous adaptation of his acclaimed novel, the timeless comic trope of swapping twins has a political edge, echoing a tumultuous, post-Berlusconi Italy. Deftly manoeuvring through the challenge of a double role, Toni Servillo balances physical comedy and farce with graceful charm.