Movie Review - I Fidanzati
I Fidanzati (1963)
directed by Ermanno Olmi
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
I live in a world where Bicycle Thieves is the movie people talk about when they want to show how humanistic film can be. But I believe in the maxim that the movies aren't inherently tragic - that pleasure and awe are too ingrained in the process - and I'm left cold by anyone who could ascribe the penultimate virtues of my favorite artistic medium to anything not concerned with love. A great story needs a girl.
It follows that Olmi is the most underrated romantic director in the world, insofar as I can browse a thousand lists with The Rules of the Game near the top of the heap and not one with Il Posto or "I Fidanzati."
directed by Ermanno Olmi
rating: 5 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
I live in a world where Bicycle Thieves is the movie people talk about when they want to show how humanistic film can be. But I believe in the maxim that the movies aren't inherently tragic - that pleasure and awe are too ingrained in the process - and I'm left cold by anyone who could ascribe the penultimate virtues of my favorite artistic medium to anything not concerned with love. A great story needs a girl.
It follows that Olmi is the most underrated romantic director in the world, insofar as I can browse a thousand lists with The Rules of the Game near the top of the heap and not one with Il Posto or "I Fidanzati."
posted by NPK at 7:52 AM
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