Synopsis
Puerto Escondido (1992) is an Italian comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Gabriele Salvatores and starring Diego Abatantuono and Valeria Golino. Mario is a mild-mannered bank clerk in Milan who witnesses a murder committed by a corrupt cop. Staying in the city isn't an option, so he runs — south, across an ocean, to a small coastal town in Mexico where nobody knows him and nothing is supposed to happen.
Of course, things happen. Two Italian expats already living in Puerto Escondido pull him into a series of disasters that are somehow more chaotic than the one he was fleeing. Abatantuono plays Mario as a man perpetually one step behind events, never quite catching up, and that quiet bafflement is where most of the comedy lives. Golino brings warmth and a sense of mischief to a film that could easily have been just a chase picture. Salvatores made Puerto Escondido the year after Mediterraneo took home the Oscar for Best International Film, and there's a similar sun-drenched, slightly melancholy spirit running through both.
Stream Puerto Escondido (1992) online on iFILM.
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