VIVA LA LIBERTÀ

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.