I just finished watching "Il Sorpasso" in French...I understood 80% of the dialogue, but missed the little quip about Antonioni's "L'Eclisse". Was Bruno just calling out the theme of alientation, etc. total BS?
Great movie. Sad, nostalgic, beautiful.
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Bruno said that he liked the movie so much that he slept through the whole film!
then he goes on praising songs by Garcia Lorca and Mudogno because he likes the way they treat the same subject of alienation ect.
Great movie. Just can't find it on DVD with decent english subtitles.
"What if there is no tomorrow? there wasn't one today...!";
"During an early scene in Dino Risi’s 1962 film Il Sorpasso, Bruno Cortona (Vittorio Gassman) tells Roberto Mariani (Jean-Louis Trintignant) to put on a Domenico Modugno record. “This song drives me crazy,” Bruno says. “It seems so simple, but it’s got everything: loneliness, inability to communicate, and that stuff that’s all the rage now — alienation, like in Antonioni’s films. Did you see L’Eclisse? I fell asleep. Had a nice nap. Great director, Antonioni.”
At least on the surface, Risi’s road trip comedy has little in common with Michelangelo Antonioni’s somber meditations on modern life, such as L’Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L’Eclisse (1962). As the movie goes on, though, Bruno’s description of the Modugno song becomes more and more applicable to Il Sorpasso itself."
Source:
https://cinematicscribblings.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/it-seems-so-simple-but-its-got-everything-il-sorpasso-1962/