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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 440060" data-attributes="member: 8">Il Posto (1961)[ATTACH=full]59044[/ATTACH]An Italian kitchen-sink comedy drama about a young man who needs a job, and then not much happens. But it&#039;s brilliant, it really is. Sort of a slightly more romantic Bleak Moments.It doesn&#039;t look like a typical comedy and that&#039;s why those funny moments happen unexpectedly.Casting-wise Il Posto is a match made in heaven. Sandro Panseri plays main character Domenico, his debut role out of three film roles currently listed on IMDB, and I got the impression that he was discovered and then someone decided to build a film around his appearance.Domenico is shy and looks criminally adorable, his big melancholic eyes speak louder than his voice.There&#039;s an interesting segment that shows the background of a bunch of supporting characters. One of these characters dies off-screen and all we get is a few shots of his cleaned out workplace and flat, as if he had never existed at all.This was quite a transfixing experience and I couldn&#039;t think of any reason why this film should end. But it does end, not in a satisfying way but in a way that&#039;s good for the film.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 440060, member: 8"] Il Posto (1961) [ATTACH type="full" alt="1779012976008.png"]59044[/ATTACH] An Italian kitchen-sink comedy drama about a young man who needs a job, and then not much happens. But it's brilliant, it really is. Sort of a slightly more romantic [I]Bleak Moments[/I]. It doesn't look like a typical comedy and that's why those funny moments happen unexpectedly. Casting-wise Il Posto is a match made in heaven. Sandro Panseri plays main character Domenico, his debut role out of three film roles currently listed on IMDB, and I got the impression that he was discovered and then someone decided to build a film around his appearance. Domenico is shy and looks [U]criminally[/U] adorable, his big melancholic eyes speak louder than his voice. There's an interesting segment that shows the background of a bunch of supporting characters. One of these characters dies off-screen and all we get is a few shots of his cleaned out workplace and flat, as if he had never existed at all. This was quite a transfixing experience and I couldn't think of any reason why this film should end. But it does end, not in a satisfying way but in a way that's good for the film. [/QUOTE]

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