First Look at Dino Risi's Recently Restored The Easy Life
HomeFirst Look at Dino Risi's Recently Restored The Easy Life
Posted January 14, 2014 07:06 PM by Webmaster
The Criterion Collection has released a clip from acclaimed Italian director Dino Risi's Il Sorpasso a.k.a The Easy Life (1962), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, and Claudio Gora. Recently restored from the original camera negative, Il Sorpasso is currently being screened at Film Forum in New York City.
Synopsis (courtesy of Film Forum): Vittorio Gassman's just looking for a phone in a holiday-deadened Rome to say he's already an hour late, while uptight law student Jean-Louis Trintignant just wants to keep on studying, but soon they're whizzing past everything on the road as shameless hot dog Gassman rides that very distinctive horn, treats Trintignant to meals that he isn't paying for, even crashing at his own ex-wife's, where he's horrified to find teenage daughter Catherine Spaak is… like him? But even as Trintignant switches from "Let's go back" to "this is the best day of my life," there's one more thing to "surpass." Smash road comedy, a long-unseen classic of the commedia all'italiana, from sadly-underrated titan Risi.
Synopsis (courtesy of Film Forum): Vittorio Gassman's just looking for a phone in a holiday-deadened Rome to say he's already an hour late, while uptight law student Jean-Louis Trintignant just wants to keep on studying, but soon they're whizzing past everything on the road as shameless hot dog Gassman rides that very distinctive horn, treats Trintignant to meals that he isn't paying for, even crashing at his own ex-wife's, where he's horrified to find teenage daughter Catherine Spaak is… like him? But even as Trintignant switches from "Let's go back" to "this is the best day of my life," there's one more thing to "surpass." Smash road comedy, a long-unseen classic of the commedia all'italiana, from sadly-underrated titan Risi.