(Le città di pianura)
Country: IT/GER
Technical: col 100m
Director: Francesco Sossai
Cast: Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano, Pierpaolo Capovilla
Synopsis:
Two friends travel by car to the Veneto in order to meet an old workmate at the airport. En route, in search of a hostelry that will serve them the titular beverage, they come across an earnest student and take him under their wing.
Review:
Amiable road movie of the type being made fifty years ago (one thinks of Wenders particularly), whose chief hallmark is the irrepressible lust for life of this Vladimir and Estragon, supported by a cavalier attitude to modern drink driving laws. Playfully enigmatic (we end on a dropped ice cream run over by passing vehicles), the film 'mooches around like a drunk in the afternoon', as Peter Bradshaw put it, with no great end in sight, replacing one pal with another before ending as it began. The title translates as 'Towns of the Plain', presumably referring to the Po valley, but the distributors instead went for an oft-repeated line in the script for the English language replacement.
(Le città di pianura)
Country: IT/GER
Technical: col 100m
Director: Francesco Sossai
Cast: Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano, Pierpaolo Capovilla
Synopsis:
Two friends travel by car to the Veneto in order to meet an old workmate at the airport. En route, in search of a hostelry that will serve them the titular beverage, they come across an earnest student and take him under their wing.
Review:
Amiable road movie of the type being made fifty years ago (one thinks of Wenders particularly), whose chief hallmark is the irrepressible lust for life of this Vladimir and Estragon, supported by a cavalier attitude to modern drink driving laws. Playfully enigmatic (we end on a dropped ice cream run over by passing vehicles), the film 'mooches around like a drunk in the afternoon', as Peter Bradshaw put it, with no great end in sight, replacing one pal with another before ending as it began. The title translates as 'Towns of the Plain', presumably referring to the Po valley, but the distributors instead went for an oft-repeated line in the script for the English language replacement.
