A man with a black ponytail and a red silk shirt staring sorrowfully and hopelessly into a toilet, a woman in a slip waiting for him in bed until she loses patience and steals the show. The dancer from Assemini, Martina Miliddi, is Checco Zalone's "chica del corazon" in the new hilarious video "Prostata enflamada," released by the Apulian comedian on the unified Mediaset networks ("It's never happened to anyone... Who? Mattarella? What film did he make?").
Choreographed by Luca Paoloni, the music video (already over 300,000 views on YouTube) is directed by Gennaro Nunziante, director of the first four films by Luca Medici, aka Checco Zalone, and of "Buen Camino," the eagerly awaited comedy in theaters starting December 25. It features an unlikely Latin sex symbol, Joaquin Cortison, suffering from a terrible prostate infection that prevents him from venting his supposed Iberian lust with his "chica," Martina Miliddi. He waits and waits between the sheets, consoled by Filipino servants, and finally abandons himself to a sensual and desperate dance accompanied by a mariachi ensemble.
The result, with its urologist laughing, broken Spanish, and a prostate that "challenges" so much "that not even Pablo could Escobar," is irresistible. And even filming the music video was a blast: "Little time, so much to do, but with an elite team! We couldn't just laugh, we just couldn't," admits choreographer Paoloni, thanking the Sardinian dancer.
Behind the irony lies Zalone's usual scathing social satire: the debasement of the patriarchal concept of the conquering macho and the homage to the infinite "patience of women," represented here by the 25-year-old from Assemini. And then there's Spain, the setting for "Buen Camino," like Sardinia. The film begins on the island: Checco, a wealthy heir spoiled by his sofa-manufacturer father, Eugenio Zalone, spends his days between luxurious villas on the Costa Smeralda and gigantic yachts. He must abandon them when he goes in search of his teenage daughter, Crystal, who has set out on the Camino de Santiago in an attempt to find meaning in her life. Amid remote villages, crumbling hostels, and miles of hiking in the sun and rain, the two will find each other again.
