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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Monicelli’s caper, this is an Italian comedy powered by mismatched male companionship, sharp social observation, and a brisk comic momentum that gradually exposes something more bittersweet.
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Why this pick
A direct follow-up in spirit to Big Deal on Madonna Street, reuniting its lovable incompetent-criminal energy for another scrappy, character-led comic scheme.
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Why this pick
Monicelli again combines an unruly ensemble, wry class-conscious humor, and humane melancholy, exchanging a botched heist for a spirited workers’ struggle.
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Why this pick
Its elaborate comic plotting and deadpan treatment of desperate schemes share the film’s satirical bite, while its Sicilian setting gives the social comedy a darker edge.
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Why this pick
For the sharper, socially observant side of Italian crime cinema: Rosi trades the bumbling caper for an intricate, tense investigation with a similarly vivid sense of postwar Italy.
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01 / THE STORY
A hapless small-time Roman crook, Cosimo (Memmo Carotenuto), is arrested for a bungled car theft and sentenced to a few months in prison. He harangues his girlfriend and lawyer to get him released, and even tries to get one of his friends to confess to his crime, so he may carry out a heist idea stolen from another inmate, a dishonest bricklayer who purposely constructed a flimsy wall between a pawn shop safe and an adjacent vacant apartment. Ultimately, his gang bribes an acquaintance with a clean criminal record, a boxer named Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) to confess. The warden does not believe Peppe, however, and he ends up in jail alongside Cosimo. Peppe tells Cosimo that he has been sentenced to three long years for this minor offense and Cosimo, to justify his actions, explains the details of the pawn shop heist to Peppe. Peppe then gleefully reveals that he has been given a year's probation and walks out the prison gate, infuriating Cosimo.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Peppe il pantera
Tiberio
Dante Cruciani
Carmelina
Nicoletta
il commissario di polizia
Mario Angeletti
Cosimo
