Three Neapolitan husbands swipe right on disaster — Christmas chaos ensues.
In a small village of Naples three friends, Francis, Mimmo and Lello, manage to get a meeting with three beautiful Bulgarian girls known on the Internet, scheduled for Christmas. The wives alarmed try to stir the spirits of the three hot husbands, but the whole thing is just a trick of three Bulgarians with intent to deprive the people of their assets in the country and that the girls will not.
Acting
Ernesto Mahieux steals scenes as the village's chaotic voice of reason.
Production
Gritty Naples locations vs. the characters' delusional self-image.
Director
Duccio Forzano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak Berlusconi-era Italian cinema: trashy comedies about provincial masculinity in crisis, when internet dating still seemed exotic and dangerous.
The title 'Ventitré' (twenty-three) refers to a mysterious number in the scam — the exact meaning is revealed in the final twist.
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