A bureaucrat meets a revolutionary's sister and does absolutely nothing revolutionary. Italian ennui at its finest.
Lorenzo is a civil servant who wearily drags his business in Milan between meetings, a wink to his secretary and the latest hallway gossip with his colleague. One day, more dazed than usual, he leaves the office and wanders off. By chance, he meets Cristina, a university student seemingly convinced of her incarcerated brother's revolutionary ideas, but is unable to detach herself from the bourgeois complex assured to her by her family.
Cinematography
Milan's gray October light becomes a character.
Acting
Annie Belle's restless eyes say everything the script won't.
Direction
Spinola's refusal to resolve anything is aggressively intentional.
Director
Paolo Spinola
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