Ricky Tognazzi, of Ultra, L’escorta etc etc, has a new film that’s just come out in Italy.   It’s a thriller of sorts, starring Alessandro Gassman and based on a novel by Giancarlo De Cataldo (Romanzo criminale).  Reviews have been mixed and it’s not being widely distributed, showing in just 16 cinemas for now.

According to Variety:

Thirteen years after his breakout role in Ferzan Ozpetek’s “Steam: The Turkish Bath,” thesp Alessandro Gassman plays another handsome Italo husband seduced by the Orient in “The Father and the Foreigner,” and again the region is personified by an affable but mysterious local. But Ricky Tognazzi’s adaptation of the book by “Crime Novel” scribe Giancarlo De Cataldo feels muddled, with awkwardly handled thriller elements in the latter reels getting in the way of a message of cultural fraternity and impressively twinned portraits of men caring for disabled children. Beyond Italy, this is mainly fest fare.