THE POPE'S TOILET (2007) - Sept. 7, 2007
A disappointingly dull film about a man from a small, ramshackle village who cooks up a scheme to build a public washroom and then charge people to use it (the village is expecting thousands of people to come to see the visiting Pope). The movie may sound wacky or even lively, but it is not. It's a slow-moving character study in the vein of Italian neorealist films from the '40s and '50s, but even compared to those, it is slow. The film does a pretty decent job of developing the central characters, particularly the main schemer, but the film's pace is too big of a hurdle to get over. *1/2
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