Things From Another World (Cose dell'altro mondo)

A flourishing north Italian town energizes to discover that it is immigrants have disappeared in Francesco Patierno's comically provocative but slight "Things From Another World," modified from Sergio Arau's 2004 feature "Every Day Without any Mexican." Pic's timing seems being right, due to the subject's newsworthiness, but disappointing receipts in your house declare that no matter the comedy form, residents are trying to find some factor effective or maybe more banal. Offshore will probably be limited to Italo showcases. Town kingpin Golfetto (Diego Abatantuono) utilizes numerous legal immigrants within the factory, but he's a typical hypocrite, railing against people using their company nations while experiencing their services (including people from the affectionate African streetwalker). The morning after he rants about immigrants on tv, these disappear. Ariele (Valerio Mastandrea) needs to handle a senile mother without any minder, while his ex-g.f. (Valentina Lodovini) is anxious about her black fiance additionally to her foreign-born students, all gone. Patierno ("Pater Familias") provides a few striking images but no vitality in this open-ended dissection of hypocrisy. Ironically, the press notes don't credit any thesps playing the immigrants, causing them to be disappear, too. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com