I COMPAGNI
via Mario Monicelli
It’s so damp in here.
Come back down to earth.
Out as long as possible
may be impossible.
Police stopped us.
A demonstration:
give in first & show them you’re acting:
now I say let’s go back to work:
insults here:
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 8-1-07 (2:16 PM)
Written during my first viewing of a 1963 film included within the 50th
anniversary retrospective of Janus Films now touring North America. One of
my favorite actors, Marcello Mastroianni, embodies in a very subtle fashion
the role of a labor organizer in late nineteenth century Turin. How I
missed this film when it was first distributed by Janus remains unclear,
and I was quite uncertain in advance about the prospect of writing until I
could determine whether I had seen it forty years ago and forgotten the
experience. Even after I realized that this was an initial viewing, my
writing was intermittent, but on reading the first draft, I felt I had
somehow snapped a cross-section from the film.
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