Before he poked fun at the Holocaust, Roberto Benigni used slightly less tact to deal with sexual assault.
With mistaken identity as an excuse for escalating physical gags and verbal sparring into an intense comedy of errors, it is very much in the spirit of his earlier Johnny Stecchino. The plot involves Benigni as an unpleasant but ultimately harmless miscreant who the police suspect to be a sexually violent serial killer, and send a police officer (Nicoletta Braschi) undercover to…