The Liar

Streaming video - 2014

A famous comedy written in 1750 by the great Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni, a modern author with flashes of true contemporaneity. The protagonist, Lelio, is a boaster and a liar, but he is essentially an outcast, the victim of a society that is too serious, too greedy and incapable of any feelings that are not dictated by interest or conformism. He is a human being who was forgotten by everybody, including his father, who was absent since Lelio’s youth. Intolerant of any constraints, he tries to set himself free by any means, but it is useless: Lelio, who lives in his own world, is the victim of the world of others.