Case Number 15595: Small Claims Court   New Yorker Films // 2006
// 110 Minutes // Not Rated Reviewed by Judge Joel Pearce
(Retired) // February 2nd, 2009  The Charge  It's the dead who
command in Italy.  The Case  Whoever decided to bill The Wedding
Director as a comedy for its North American release clearly
doesn't understand the film. I'm not sure I understand it
either, and it does have a few funny scenes, but there's no
question in my mind that the attempt to slot The Wedding
Director into any genre would be doing it a great disservice.
It's a film like few others, an uncompromising postmodern
journey into the nature of film and society.  The story, it
seems, goes something like this: Franco Elica (Sergio
Castellitto, Paris, Je T'aime) is a director whose daughter has
just been married. He is working on the casting for a major
film, but decides to slip away to Sicily when his assistant
makes an inappropriate comment to a young actress, implicating
Elica in a potentially nasty sex scandal. As he arrives i