The main idea is quite interesting: a minister who is forced to resign and then discovers true happiness. But, apart from Piccoli's surprising turn as the aforementioned politician's mother, this is the only interesting thing about it. Its duration is two goddamn hours out of which the first one is only nearly good and the second one is extremely dull. Actually, it's maddening because it's uneventful and pretentious and thinks it's great, innovative, artistic or something. Well, it's sheer bore.