{"id":17255,"date":"2025-02-27T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17255"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:34:09","slug":"il-posto-1961-ermanno-olmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17255","title":{"rendered":"Il Posto (1961, Ermanno Olmi)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aka The Job<\/em>, I watched this to see what it must be like to have a job (it sucks). Older brother goes to Milan to find work so maybe his little bro will be able to stay in school. First you gotta pass the interview, which seems to be one easy math problem, then a physical, which weeds out the desperate old guys. Then you’re mercifully given a post with nothing to do as a delivery boy’s assistant, and eventually a desk, along the way attending the saddest company holiday party ever, and attempting to connect with a hot girl who’s also the only person around your age.<\/p>\n

After work:<\/em>
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Forgot I’d already seen something by Olmi – he did the best segment of Tickets<\/a><\/em>. This was gloriously shot, a poetic upgrade to the early neorealists. Per Lawrence<\/a>: “A collection of brilliant moments, some fleeting and improvised, others punchy and precise, fused together with an outlook at once generous and satirical”<\/p>\n

Desk anxiety:<\/em>
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Kent Jones<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

To say that Olmi identifies with Domenico, the young hero of Il Posto<\/em> on the verge of a \u201cjob for life,\u201d is to put it mildly. The pull of his narrative is fitted to Domenico\u2019s inner turmoil, his curiosity and his romantic longing, like two pieces of wood joined by an expert carpenter. Even the lovely section in which the story veers off course to examine the private lives of Domenico\u2019s future office mates (there are oddly similar tangents in Jacques Rivette\u2019s Paris Belongs to Us<\/a><\/em> and Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Band of Outsiders<\/a><\/em>, made around the same time) feels like an illumination of Domenico\u2019s own perceptions: these hushed vignettes represent the lay of the adult land, as well as a set of possible futures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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