I've seen Dino Risi's road movie several time and with the same pleasure.The Gassman/Trintignant team superbly works :if they made a remake (God preserve us) it would be very difficult to find back the rapport they had .
All along the road (I say it again it's a road movie,and it is to be ranked among the best of the genre) ,the two characters change and we have the strange feeling that the more we see them the less we know them.Roberto is the educated boy but his naiveté and his ingenuousness are so beaming that he is totally kept down by Bruno.My favorite scenes take place where Roberto used to spend his holidays .He was so childish he did not realize that his aunt preferred the farmer and that the servant was gay(Bruno's lines are much fun!) But things are not what they seem.We soon discover that Bruno is not the strong man he pretends he is.Non-intellectuals will appreciate the slap at the "serious" directors (Antonioni' s "l'eclisse" ) .As for the ending,it comes as a shock.Completely unexpected.What do you suppose that means?Perhaps the end of Bruno's childhood,Roberto representing another himself ,the one he wanted to be or the one he used to be.
All along the road (I say it again it's a road movie,and it is to be ranked among the best of the genre) ,the two characters change and we have the strange feeling that the more we see them the less we know them.Roberto is the educated boy but his naiveté and his ingenuousness are so beaming that he is totally kept down by Bruno.My favorite scenes take place where Roberto used to spend his holidays .He was so childish he did not realize that his aunt preferred the farmer and that the servant was gay(Bruno's lines are much fun!) But things are not what they seem.We soon discover that Bruno is not the strong man he pretends he is.Non-intellectuals will appreciate the slap at the "serious" directors (Antonioni' s "l'eclisse" ) .As for the ending,it comes as a shock.Completely unexpected.What do you suppose that means?Perhaps the end of Bruno's childhood,Roberto representing another himself ,the one he wanted to be or the one he used to be.