THE RETURN OF DON CAMILLO
(Rizzoli-Francinex) G Cert. PARE-TIME film reviewers sometimes don’t come as fresh to their job as they’d like to, and I think I should confess that I saw the Don Camillo sequel in a jaded and not very perceptive mood, For that reason Barometer reflects an inclination to be generous about my doubts. Sequels-it has been said before -are not often as good as the films they follow, and I think that’s probably true of this one. My main objection to The Little World of Don Camillo as filmed was that while the village episodes were realistic and sincere, the war between priest and Communist mayor strongly suggested farce. Again there’s this division, though the comedy may have less of farce in it than before-which is a good thing. It comes to this, I suppose, that if you like this sort of comedywhich I don’t really wholeheartedlyyou'll enjoy this film very much. Fernandel and Gino Cervi are as good as ever as the priest and the mayor, forever at loggerheads but brothers under their ideological skins-as I remarked when I reviewed the earlier film; and, as in the earlier piece, the director, Julien Duvivier, has captured the village, the countryside, the people in a warmly imaginative way. That was for me, in fact, again the most satisfying part of the film.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 9
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225THE RETURN OF DON CAMILLO New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 9
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