Sergio Castellitto, the star of “The Wedding Director,” is not what you would call a comedian. His glowering ferocity is currently on display in “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” in which he plays the principal villain with Shakespearean relish. Over the last decade his anxious, melancholy countenance — the difference between mild concern and existential agony can be measured in the angle of his frown — has lent intelligence and gravity to films directed by Jacques Rivette, Marco Bellocchio and Mr. Castellitto himself.

But if Mr. Castellitto is rarely funny in the usual sense, he is almost always witty. One of his eyebrows tilts a little higher than the other, animating his stoical features with a hint of skepticism, or perhaps surprise. Mr. Bellocchio, the writer and director of “The Wedding Director,” allows him a single smile in the course of the film, but like a Buster Keaton hero, the actor refuses mirth in part to provoke the audience’s laughter.

Excerpt from A.O. Scott's review at the NY Times located HERE