The Big Fox

The Big Fox

1988 · 115 min · IT · 7.1 (19 votes)
Dir. Maurizio Ponzi · Starring Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Montagnani, Athina Cenci, Alessandro Haber · Music Fabio Liberatori
Comedy

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

VIBE

A darkly witty and cynical look at human nature. Expect sharp dialogue and a sense of theatricality as greed and deception play out in a battle of wits. It's a sharp, satirical, and often uncomfortable watch.

cynicalwittysatiricaldarkly comedicsteadyperiod piecestage adaptationdark comedygreeddeceptionclasshuman nature
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