Arte della fuga (da Roma). Spazi del sé comico nel cinema di Carlo Verdone

In all of his films, Carlo Verdone shows and problematizes the relationship between man, the city of Rome and the wider suburban space. The dialectic of spaces is fundamental in building the structure of his comedies, in which characters struggle between dissatisfaction with the settled condition and the aspiration to escape from Rome. Through the methodologies of geographic aesthetics and geocriticism, this paper highlights the spatial attitudes detectable in Verdone’s films, from topophrenia to topothesia; and advances hypotheses about the narrative and thematic function of these attitudes.