Word: mambo
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...Mambo Italiano...
...Mambo Italiano...
...Mambo Italiano opens with promise: warm coloring, fluid camerawork and appealing Italian-themed scenes, with the family eating gelato. We are introduced to in-the-closet Angelo (Luke Kirby), a young Italian man from Montreal finally moving out after 27 years of what he calls “the trap,” living at home with his parents, who just want him to meet and fall in love with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents...
...someone who is 50 percent Italian, I was 50 percent offended by Mambo Italiano. The comedic exploitation of the Italian family at the film’s core wasn’t a problem—I’ve seen and made my fair shair of Mafia jokes and expert spaghetti twirls. But if you’re going to take the risk of making a stereotypical Italian film, at least do Italians justice by making it a good...
...Mambo Italiano is a mess. So much time is spent making gay, Italian, and Canadian—not even regular Canadian, FRENCH-Canadian—jokes in order to remind the audience of the movie’s irreverence that we’re all about ready to skip the cannoli and go home. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes...