{{short description|1985 film by Adriano Celentano}} {{for|the album|Joan Lui (album)}} {{Infobox film | name = Joan Lui | image = Joan Lui.jpg | caption = Italian theatrical release poster by Renato Casaro | director = Adriano Celentano | writer = Adriano Celentano | starring = {{Plainlist| *Adriano Celentano *Claudia Mori *Federica Moro *Gian Fabio Bosco *Mirko Setaro *Haruhiko Yamanouchi *Marthe Keller }} | music = Adriano Celentano<br /> Pinuccio Pirazzoli<br /> Ronny Jackson<br /> Gino Santercole | cinematography = Alfio Contini | editing = Adriano Celentano | producer = Mario & Vittorio Cecchi Gori | language = Italian | country = Italy | distributor = Variety Distribution | released = {{Film date|1985}} | runtime = 163 min<br>133 min (cut edition)<br>125 min (Home Video cut) }} '''''Joan Lui''''' (also known as ''Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì'') is a 1985 Italian musical comedy film by Adriano Celentano. It was the fourth and the last films Celentano wrote, starred in and directed.
==Plot== Joan Lui is a singer who has come from another world to condemn the hypocrisy and atrocities of the Western culture. When he arrives in Italy, he seeks to create a band composed of young and inexperienced musicians to better spread his message. After having exposed the deception of a major musical producer, Joan Lui disappears into thin air. Meanwhile, the world is plunged into a terrible apocalypse.
==Cast== *Adriano Celentano: Joan Lui *Claudia Mori: Tina Foster *Marthe Keller: Judy Johnson *Federica Moro: Emanuela Carboni *Edwin Marian: Cap. Arthur *Gian Fabio Bosco: Winston *Mirko Setaro: Musico *Rita Rusic: Temple singer *Haruhiko Yamanouchi: Jarak *Piero Nuti: Franky *Edoardo Romano: Prime Minister *Sal Borgese: Frank *Gino Cogliandro: Bartender *Francesco Salvi: Journalist *Romano Puppo: Assassin
==Soundtrack== # ''L'uomo perfetto'' # ''Sex without Love'' # ''Il tempio'' # ''Mistero'' # ''Lunedì'' # ''Qualcosa nascerà'' # ''Splendida e nuda'' # ''L'ora è guinta'' # ''La prima stella''
==Production== The film was the center of a dispute between Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Celentano as the producers decided, a month after theatrical release, to replace the original cut with another version with a different editing and 30 minutes shorter.<ref name="80dl">{{cite book|last=Poppi|first=Roberto|title=I film - 5: Dal 1980 al 1989. 1, A-L|series=Dizionario del cinema italiano|location=Rome|publisher=Gremese|year=2000|language=it|isbn=88-7742-423-0}}</ref><ref name=stracult>{{cite book|last=Giusti|first=Marco|title=Dizionario dei film italiani stracult|year=1999|location=Milan|publisher=Sperling & Kupfer|language=it|isbn=88-200-2919-7}}</ref>
==Reception== The film was a box office bomb, grossing 7.3 billion lire at the Italian box office in spite of a budget of about 20 billion lire.
The film also received generally bad reviews. Morando Morandini described it as "an enormous music video based on visual shock, jam-packed with music, with some monumental sets and elaborate editing. A true festival of kitsch also on an ideological level".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Morandini|first1=Laura|last2=Morandini|first2=Morando|last3=Morandini|first3=Luisa|title=Il Morandini: dizionario dei film 2000|location=Bologna|publisher=Zanichelli|year=1999|language=it|isbn=88-08-02037-1}}</ref> According to Paolo Mereghetti the film, "a personal reading of Christianity in musicals", "a personal delusion of omnipotence", and "a mock-apocalyptic madness that is just able to list the worst clichés of indifference".<ref>{{cite book|last=Mereghetti|first=Paolo|title=Il Mereghetti: dizionario dei film 2011|location=Milan|publisher=Baldini Castoldi Dalai|year=2010|language=it|isbn=978-88-6073-626-0}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0089375}} *[https://www.varietydistribution.it/en/catalogue/joan-lui/ ''Joan Lui''] at Variety Distribution
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