Comedies

A while ago I saw a movie called Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. It is a funny French comedy about a man who gets transferred to work in the north of France. In France this is like the worse possible thing for a southern French person. In the north they drink too much, don't have a work moral, eat in weird manners and speaks a terrible dialect. In the end the man gets transferred to the South coast again and cries leaving the North as he became really fond of it. No special story but really funny. When I heard that the Italians have done the same movie but in their version, I just had to see it. Fra and I spent the rainy Sunday afternoon laughing loudly in the cinema. The Italian version is called Benvenuti al Sud where a man who wants to be transferred to Milan has to work in a small village outside Napoli. He is completely terrified to go there but proves a saying correct: you cry in Campagna twice: when you arrive and when you leave. When you arrive because it seems so terrible and when you leave because you have learnt to love it.