Synopsis
Madly in Love (Innamorato pazzo, 1981) is an Italian romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia, it pairs Adriano Celentano with Ornella Muti in what amounts to a riff on Roman Holiday — only here the love-struck commoner drives a bus instead of chasing a scoop.
Barnaba is a Rome bus driver with the unflappable demeanor of a man who has seen everything and been impressed by none of it. Women queue up for his attention; he ignores the lot of them. Then Princess Cristina of the tiny principality of Saint-Tulip steps into his orbit, and Barnaba's famous calm evaporates entirely. Her royal parents have other plans: a strategic marriage to a wealthy industrialist is meant to save the family casino from bankruptcy. An infatuated bus driver was not factored into those calculations.
The film moves fast and lets its two leads do the heavy lifting — Celentano at full comic stretch, Muti as the princess slowly shedding the royal airs. Forty-plus years on it still plays as a breezy, warm piece of 1980s Italian cinema. Watch Madly in Love (1981) online on iFILM.
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