Il sorpasso / un film prodotto da Mario Cecchi Gori per la Fairfilm, Incei Film, Sancro Film ; soggetto e sceneggiatura di Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari ; un film di Dino Risi.
Edition:
Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection :
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
3 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Claudio Gora, Luciana Angelillo, Linda Sini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Special features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; new introduction by filmmaker Alexander Pagne; new interviews with screenwriter Ettore Scola and film scholar Rémi Fournier Lanzoni; interview from 2004 with director Dino Risi, conducted by film critic Jean A. Gili; introduction by actor Jean-Louis Trintignant from a 1983 French television broadcast in the film; A beautiful vacation, a 2006 documentary on Risi featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators and friends; excerpts from a 2012 documentary that returns to Castiglioncello, the location for the film's beach scenes; excerpts from Speaking with Gassman, a 2005 documentary on the relationship between actor Vittorio Gassman and Risi, directed by Risi's son Mario; trailer; new English subtitle translation; one Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats. Booklet contains essays by Phillip Lopate and Antonio Monda, as well as excerpts from Risi's writings, with an introduction by film historian and critic Valerio Caprara.
Summary:
A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.
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