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Directed by Nelo Risi, who also collaborated on the script, Diary is candid without being voyeuristic and sympathetic without being mawkish. Risi's gentle direction never obtrudes, and even the flashbacks do not obstruct. The film's muted colors and luxuriant landscapes heighten the dramatic impact...
...Virna Lisi adorns a wrong number entitled The Telephone Call by Director Dino Risi (The Easy Life). Swathed in slippery folderol, Virna lets her eager husband sweat while she warms up the wire with Mamma, discussing status, family problems, and the bikini-clad trollop who inhabits a terrace apartment across the way. Virna is still jabbering as her mate steals over to find out for himself whether a girl can really be as wicked as all that...
...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...
...Director Risi reveals the shallow, lonely aspects of Bruno's life poignantly yet comically. Long separated from his wife, Bruno visits his old home for the first time in three years. He dismisses his beautiful young daughter (Catherine Spaak) with advice to go out with younger guys (she deftly defends her aging fiancee: "Marriages of love often don't succeed. I'll go to Harvard to study and work in his research department.") and winds up in his wife's bedroom. Momentarily awakened to the wasted opportunities of the past and the emptiness of the present, he reaches...
...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...