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1961 [ITALIAN]

Action / Drama

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 93% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 93% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 7790 7.8K

new year's eve corporation college graduate milan, italy

Plot summary

With his family mired in financial troubles, Domenico moves to Milan, Italy, from his small town to get a job in lieu of furthering his education. A lack of options forces him to take a position as a messenger at a big company, where he hopes to receive a promotion soon. There, Domenico meets Antonietta, a young woman in a similar situation as himself. The two form a tentative relationship, but the soulless nature of their jobs threatens to keep them apart.

Director

Ermanno Olmi Photo
Ermanno Olmi

Top cast

Tullio Kezich Photo
Tullio Kezich as Psychologist
Guido Spadea Photo
Guido Spadea as Portioli
Loredana Detto Photo
Loredana Detto as Antonietta Masetti
Sandro Panseri Photo
Sandro Panseri as Domenico Cantoni
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858.62 MB
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1 hr 33 min
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891.18 MB
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1 hr 37 min
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1.56 GB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
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1.62 GB
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

If you’ve ever worked in a mundane, repetitive

If you’ve ever worked in a mundane, repetitive, environment then this will probably resonate quite effectively - especially if there were a collection of interviews, mental and physical acuity tests and some examinations requiring passing before you even got through the front door (and to the awaiting, grumpy, commissionaire!). Well “Domenico” (Sandro Panseri) concludes that his suburban life will amount to nothing unless he gets one of their “jobs for life” and so heads to the city where he meets the similarly focused “Antonietta” (Loredana Detto). They do like each other, but are placed in different departments, work on different shifts, and despite his determination - even in the torrential rain - to meet her again, what chance they will ever be able to find time to be alone and maybe build some sort of relationship? This is not the most quickly paced of dramas, nor is there a great deal of witty or potent dialogue, but there is something quite powerful about the observational and acoustic nature of the filming. So much of this is like a fly on the wall documentary, with the repetitious sounds of phones ringing, typewriters dinging and the canteen gossiping day in, day out. It is quite claustrophobic in it’s style, too - even down to the relentless showers, the raincoat-clad Panseri and even a new year party that shows just how alone this young man is. His performance is measured and really quite evocative at times as his role in the corporate hierarchy is epitomised towards the end in a scenario that is both funny and quite pathetic. Is this his future? Maybe the grass wasn’t so much greener after all?
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Reviewed by museumofdave 9 / 10

A Quiet and Humane Document About The Way We Live

This is a film about ordinary people and it is told in an extraordinary fashion; a young man is not terribly excited to be entering the corporate world--and with good reason. But family and custom and lack of formal education can be persuasive, and so he tests for a position and finds himself in a well-ordered black and white world where individuals count for very little; sounds grim, but director Olmi has a keen eye for the richness of humanity, for the sensitivity of existence, for the quiet celebration of being human. This is a remarkable document, all the more so for being without breathless pacing or minute-by-minute explosions or rounds of gunfire; this is a quiet masterpiece about the richness that can be found by merely observing and the loneliness that is a quintessential part of being human.
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