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There was more rain, and the rain was not good to Sinclair's Dino the Dinosaur, who somehow got a crick in the long neck he cranes-a crick that turned into a crack when the rain began to work into it. But contrary to pre-fair predictions of hideous tie-ups, fair-bound cars flowed in an untroubled, purring stream...
...film with such a transparent plot could easily have been a clunker, but instead, The Easy Life is a wildly enchanting film. Director Dino Risi starts with what seems to be an upper middle class La Dolce Vita. Bruno, a middle-aged playboy from Rome, drives his sports car fast but isn't really happy because, deep down, he's bored and leading a superficial existence...
...Fabbri brothers-Giovanni, 43, Dino, 41, and Rino, 36-started with a small textbook company after World War II. Shrewdly figuring that Italy's growing middle class had both an urge to learn and an eagerness to buy almost anything on the installment plan, the Fabbris decided to turn out books that sell like magazines. Their first offering, a four-volume encyclopedia issued in 48 weekly installments at 350 each, has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted 3,000,000 customers. The Fabbris followed up with serialized encyclopedias of science, sport, fairy tales and the arts, prepared...
...EASY LIFE. One of the funniest-and saddest-films ever made in Italy is Director Dino Risi's study of a raffish Roman playboy (Vittorio Gassman) who jet-propels a shy young law student (Jean Louis Trintignant) into a world of fast cars, soft shoulders and sudden death...
...that point, The Easy Life is one of the funniest pictures ever made in Italy-a picaresque podge of Don Quixote and La Dolce Vita, a Tom Jones with jetaway. Gassman is superbly absurd as a sex bomb stuffed with ravioli, and Director Dino Risi faultlessly paces and spaces the fun and games. In its whole intention, however, The Easy Life is clearly more tragic than comic. The party is over before the picture is over. The spectator lifts the last glass of champagne to his lips and finds it full of blood: the blood of a decent, bewildered...