The Mayor of Rione Sanità

"[It] certainly won’t coax newcomers into the playwright’s world, nor is it likely to entice many Italians apart from De Filippo cognoscenti." 

"It is certainly one of the director’s more successful films, but it suffers from the same intellectual barriers that have made his work so difficult to access for general audiences (...) Viewers will leave the film more bemused than enlightened."