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Il sorpasso (The Easy Life)

Il sorpasso

1962

Dino Risi

Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Claudio Gora ...

7.7

3,580

Comedy. Drama 'Il sorpasso' starts on a summer's day in Rome where Roberto (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a withdrawn young scholar who encounters Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a middle-aged man driving a stylish convertible. This chance meeting leads to drinks and eventually to an extended road trip out of the city. As the unlikely pair spend time together, they find out more about each other and even visit respective family members.

	Author	Review
United States	The New York Times	"Risi's fast-paced direction and, more important, the truths he underlines, give his uncluttered film meaning and poignancy as well as mere speed"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich AV Club	"'Il Sorpasso' both exemplifies and perfects the Italian comedy (...) Masterpiece (...) It also epitomizes how these films mined beauty from cynicism"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"This is one of the great films of the 1960s (...) It's so unlike anything else that it's hard to describe (...) Every scene is both amusing and interesting"	POS
United States	Pat Graham Chicago Reader	"Risi's corrosive social comedy managed to combine the aggressive energy of the French New Wave and the dissipated drift of Antoniennui in a way that seemed fresh and daring in the Italian commercial cinema of 1962."	POS
United States	Bill Weber Slant	"Early ’60s Rome comes across vividly, but the two leads can’t quite sell the heavy-handed irony as truths about masculine character, as Risi intends (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Moira MacDonald Seattle Times	"[It] gives a glorious taste of Italy on a summer day a half-century ago."	POS
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Unmissable (...) It’s a film that leavens the cruising and carousing with a fair share of internal reflection (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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