Interestingly, there's no director credited, through IMDB lists them as Alberto Sironi and Luca Zingaretti. Screenplay (Sceneggiatura) by Francesco Bruni, Andrea Camillieri, Salvatore de Mola & Leonardo Marini, with additional dialogue by Valentina Alteri, from Camillieri's final Montalbano novel. DP Franco Lecca.
Greta Scarano is the new forensics expert with whom Montalbano is immediately smitten. Well not so much smitten as falls head over heels in love with, prompting the ending of his seemingly endless relationship with Livia.
I have to say that Franco Piersanti's score (which I think is all new) is stunning, sometimes making you think you're listening to Puccini. His love theme is exquisite.
It's a typically quirky number this one with only one plot, for a change, revolving around a dead body that Mimi has (literally) stumbled over whilst leaving his girlfriend's by the window - he then feels he can't reveal it - and an identical corpse found elsewhere. It all turns around the victim, who has unusual acting methods (thus the title).
Mimi posits that Montalbano's housekeeper should be made a Saint for her cooking.
With Zingaretti, the usual suspects - Cesare Bocci, Peppino Mazzotta, Antonia Truppo, Angelo Russo. And as this was Camillieri's last novel, probably the last time we'll see them all together.
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