Cinema al Fresco 2019: Classic Italian movies from the Cineteca di Bologna
Enjoy classic Italian cinema outdoors under the stars. These four films, presented in collaboration with Association Amarcord, have been recently restored to their original quality by Cineteca di Bologna. Screened in Italian with English subtitles.
July 25 at 9:00pm: Il sorpasso (Risi, 1962). Running time: 1 hour 45 mins
Location: Columbus Centre grounds (in the small parking lot adjacent to the tennis courts)
Please note: In case of rain, we have reserved Aug 28th to show the cancelled film.
Il sorpasso (The Easy Life). 1962. Italy. Directed by Dino Risi. Screenplay by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari. With Jean-Lois Trintignant, Vittorio Gassman. In Italian; English subtitles. 108 min.
Premiering in a new 4K restoration, The Easy Life is Italian comedy at its best—hedonistic, ironically detached, and at times vicious and gloomy. A consummate road movie, Risi’s masterpiece charts the fickle bromance between the devil-may-care Bruno and his polite and gentle friend Roberto as they blaze in a sports car across the Italian countryside from Rome to Tuscany. Vittorio Gassman, as the unscrupulous scoundrel (in a role originally intended for Alberto Sordi), and Jean-Louis Trintignant, as the uptight law student, are a match made in cinematic heaven, their blooming (and fleeting) companionship colored by memorable encounters along the roadway. “This was the first time Gassman had made a comedy with his own face,” Risi observed. “Gassman’s character was prone to wishful thinking, inconsistent, superficial, aggressive, a bit of a Fascist, but with a certain impact, and I had a few people I knew in mind when I was creating him.