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This is a movie that confounds all preconceptions and expectations. The plot-an innocent man is vaguely accused of a crime and shunted from prison to prison-suggests political reform, social outrage, harrowing character study and, ultimately, Kafka. But thanks to the skill of the superb comic actor Alberto Sordi and the subtly inflected direction of Nanni Loy (The Four Days of Naples), Why is a comedy that smiles like a razor...
Giuseppe Di Noi (Sordi), on vacation with his wife and two young children, is asked to step into the customs office at the Italian border, "a mere formality" that accelerates from terror to nightmare to catastrophe. Di Noi is charged with manslaughter, the victim a German named Franz Katlenbruner of whom he has never heard. He is transported all over Italy while his wife trails after him with the family camper, trying unsuccessfully to learn something specific about the case against him. Even when Di Noi, after weeks of imprisonment, is finally allowed to see a prison official, he bungles...
...movie is rather abrupt and disconnected, partly because that is the nature of Di Noi's trial, but also because Director Loy too often seems eager to get his character through the course. Sordi's face is India rubber, his body a whole silent vocabulary of bewilderment. He is a grand master of the single, perfect gesture that cannot only shape a scene but punctuate it. Addled after submitting to a quick series of police mug shots, Di Noi is asked for his "other profile" and hastily turns the back of his head to the camera. Protesting...
MADE IN ITALY. Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak are among the stars of this mosaic of modern Italy that blends humor, irony and pathos...
MADE IN ITALY. An assortment of scenes -some merely gentle sketches, some with stings in their tales-that portray modern-day Italy and the Italians. Nanni Loy (Four Days of Naples) directs a fine cast that includes Anna Magnani, Alberto Sordi, Virna Lisi and Catherine Spaak...