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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Pasolini shares Fellini’s attention to Rome’s margins, following a shabby hustler through sun-bleached streets with raw social observation, grotesque humor, and an increasingly painful moral weight.
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Why this pick
Its peripheral-Rome setting and compassionate focus on people excluded from prosperity echo Il Bidone’s social conscience, replacing the scams with a quietly urgent struggle for dignity and shelter.
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Why this pick
Another Fellini portrait of a vulnerable Roman outsider, it combines comic encounters, nocturnal urban lyricism, and hard-won emotional force while retaining the tender, unsentimental gaze of Il Bidone.
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Why this pick
This portrait of an aging gambler and small-time criminal has Il Bidone’s fascination with ritualized scams, shabby glamour, and an old rogue whose cool professional facade cannot erase melancholy.
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Why this pick
It turns a band of inept Roman crooks into a warmer comic ensemble, but preserves the mixture of postwar poverty, improvised criminal schemes, and vivid street-level character detail.
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01 / THE STORY
In the country outside Rome, a group of swindlers dress up as clerics and con poor farmers out of their savings. Another scam in a shanty town is to pretend they are officials taking deposits for apartments. The proceeds are spent on flashy cars, champagne and prostitutes.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Augusto
Picasso
Roberto Tucci
Iris, moglie di Picasso
Barone Vargas
Rinaldo
Patrizia, figlia di Augusto
Riccardo
