Il Posto

Posted 17 July 2007 in Screening log

Rating

1961 - Italy

Director
Ermanno Olmi

Olmi’s films would be unbearably depressing if he didn’t fill his ordinary, average-joe canvas with such romantically rendered images… His world is undeniably true to life, and yet so magically idealized, and again that proves to be a combination that hits all the right notes for me.

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