Cinema
Come Have Coffee with Us
Venga a prendere il caffè da noi
Alberto Lattuada · 1970
Synopsis
In a small provincial town in northern Italy, Emerenziano Paronzini, a middle-aged tax official, is looking to settle down advantageously. He sets his sights on the Tettamanzi sisters, Tarsilla, Camilla and Fortunata, three spinsters who have just inherited from their father. Invited to have coffee, he courts them methodically, ends up marrying one of them and moves into the family home.
Context
The film is based on the novel “La spartizione” by Piero Chiara, who wrote the screenplay with the director, Adriano Baracco and Tullio Kezich. Ugo Tognazzi plays Paronzini, opposite Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Milena Vukotic and Angela Goodwin as the three sisters. Checco Rissone completes the cast. Released in France in 1971, it was shown again in cinemas there in 2019, and critics saw in it a farce that targets bourgeois hypocrisies.
Who it is for
A comedy of manners of a little under two hours, in Italian, carried by Ugo Tognazzi and by Piero Chiara's view of his province.
Prizes and reception
Two Silver Ribbons in 1971, for the screenplay and for Francesca Romana Coluzzi, best supporting actress.