| Il ragazzo più felice del mondo | |
| Director: | Gipi |
| Producer: | Domenico Procacci |
| Starring: | Gipi Gero Arnone Davide Barbafiera Francesco Daniele |
| Cinematography: | Vanni Mastrantonio |
| Editing: | Chiara Dainese |
| Music: | Valerio Vigliar Campos |
| Distributor: | Fandango |
| Runtime: | 90 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
Il ragazzo più felice del mondo is a 2018 comedy-mockumentary film directed by Gipi.
The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on 1 September 2018 and was released in theatres the next 8 November.[1] [2] [3]
The cartoonist Gianni Pacinotti, known as Gipi, is obsessed with the need to tell stories but struggles to find the right inspiration to draw. His recent idea for creating an explicit homoerotic film titled La vita di Adelo has been rejected by producer Domenico Procacci. One day, while going through the boxes from an old move, he finds a letter he received twenty years earlier when he was not yet famous and was drawing for a small publishing house. The letter was from a fifteen-year-old boy who declared himself a fan and requested an autographed drawing from his idol. Gipi discovers that over the past twenty years, fifty other Italian cartoonists had received the same letter, written in the same way, with the same request and address, and all the letters claimed to be from a "teenager". Gipi feels he has a great story to tell and calls his friends—misanthropic Gero, hypochondriac musician Davide, and a cameraman who is never on camera and whose name no one ever remembers—to form a crew and shoot a documentary. For the finale, Gipi plans to involve all the Italian cartoonists who have received the letter over the years and visit the fan's home to draw together for him.
The film includes cameos of cartoonists Emiliano Mammucari, Giacomo Nanni, Laura Scarpa, Margherita Tramutoli, comic book editor and publisher Francesco Coniglio, and the band Campos. The theatre ensemble "Sacchi di sabbia" (Giovanni Guerrieri, Gabriele Carli, Giulia Gallo, Vincenzo Illiano) plays the cavemen.