Tolo Tolo

Tolo Tolo (2020) is the Italian comedy you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Checco Zalone, who also stars as its hapless hero. Released on New Year's Day 2020, it broke the Italian domestic box-office record for an opening week, out-earning every Hollywood release in the country that season.

Checco is an Apulian small-business dreamer whose sushi restaurant folds after a single month. To escape his creditors, he lands a job as a waiter at a Kenyan resort and cautiously settles into a new life. When civil war breaks out, he and a group of African friends end up aboard a migrant vessel crossing toward Europe. His actual destination of choice: Liechtenstein — banking secrecy, low taxes, no Italian debt collectors.

Zalone built his comedy around the European migration crisis, and he does not let anyone off the hook — not Checco, not the audience, not Italy. The film is uncomfortable in the way good satire is supposed to be uncomfortable. That's what makes it stick. Stream Tolo Tolo (2020) online on iFILM.