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Il posto
1961
Synopsis
When young Domenico ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta.
Editorial
Ermanno Olmi’s extraordinarily deft post-neorealist masterpiece shades hushed observations of youthful awakening into droll sketches of a modernizing Italy. Caged by the steel-and-glass abstractions of Milan’s proliferating officescape, Il Posto draws mordant absurdism from humanist verismo.
