| I Made a Splash | |
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| Directed by | Maurizio Nichetti |
| Written by | Maurizio Nichetti Guido Manuli |
| Produced by | Franco Cristaldi Nicola Carraro |
| Starring | Maurizio Nichetti |
| Cinematography | Mario Battistoni |
| Edited by | Giancarlo Rossi |
| Music by | Detto Mariano |
| Distributed by | Cineriz |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
I Made a Splash (Italian : Ho fatto splash) is a 1980 comedy film co-written and directed by Maurizio Nichetti.
In the 1950s, a child falls into a long sleep in front of the TV during a performance by Nilla Pizzi. He awakens in the early 1980s and must face an entirely changed world dominated by consumism and advertising.
Principal photography started in May 1980. [1] The film was shot at Icet-De Paolis studios in Cinecittà. [2]
Piero Perona in La Stampa noted how the film, "rich in wit and style, consisted mainly of a revisiting of the silent cinema that directly inspired it", particularly Harry Langdon, Max Linder, Larry Semon and Charlie Chaplin. [3] According to Giovanni Grazzini from Corriere della Sera , in this film Nichetti displayed a "a greater maturity in narrative structure but a more fragile inspiration" than in his debut film Ratataplan . [4] Cinema Nuovo's Ivo Franchi described the film as "structurally weak", with "flimsy characters" and comic situations he compared to TV variety show sketches. [2]
