Serafino

Serafino (1968) is an Italian-French comedy you can watch online on iFILM — Pietro Germi directing Adriano Celentano in a film that runs on pure comic momentum.

Serafino is a young shepherd who inherits a substantial fortune and immediately starts giving it away. He rolls a car down a hillside for no particular reason, and when the time comes to choose a bride, ignores the calculating match his family arranged in favour of a cheerful woman with a string of children in tow. His relatives are appalled; the village considers him a saint. Germi had already made Divorce Italian Style (1961) by this point and carried his affection for southern Italian characters into Serafino — but without the dark undercurrent. This one runs on delight from start to finish. Stream Serafino (1968) on iFILM.