Tuesday, November 10, 2015

La vita provvisoria (Provisional Life, 1963)






Director: Vincenzo Gamna (with Enzo Battaglia and Christopher Broadbent)
Starring: Paolo Graziosi, Kristina Stipulkowska, Gigi Zerbinati, Enzo Cerusico
Label:  Ripley's Home Video (2015)
Format: DVD / PAL / Region 0
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 b/w
Audio: Italian (Dolby Digital 1.0 mono)
Subtitles: English

Bonus:

* Short Giovedì: passeggiata (13 minutes)
* Alternative credit sequence

Available on Amazon.it

What's the film about?
An omnibus film, where the common theme is the conflict between modern lifestyle and traditional values. The film is made up of eight segments, each one with a different mood, so you have both Nouvelle Vague and comedy Italia style, an intimate love story and the chronicle of a massacre, a Fellini-esque sketch and even a science-fiction finale. Hit-and-miss but interesting.

Recommendations
...if you are looking for oddities from the golden era of Italian cinema.

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