Italian sketch films and the narrative genealogy of Roberto Benigni's 'You Upset Me'

In 'You upset me', there is a tension between comedy and tragedy. Taking the film's self conscious title into consideration, one can see how the double meaning of 'upset' is inscribed at textual, critical and industrial levels. To upset is to perturb as well as to overturn, to invert - so too are social institutions unseated by the utopian alternatives posed by Benigni and other politically engaged popular filmmakers