Il Sorpasso (1962) on Netflix
Rome is shut for Ferragosto when Bruno Cortona, impulsive and thirty-six, asks to use law student Roberto Mariani's telephone. They set off along the Tyrrhenian coast in his Lancia Aurelia.
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Plot summary
Rome is empty for the Ferragosto holiday weekend, and Bruno Cortona, thirty-six and never grown up, is driving his Lancia Aurelia through the streets. He calls up to Roberto Mariani, a law student studying for an exam, and asks whether he may use a telephone. To thank him, Bruno insists on buying Roberto a drink, and the reluctant student is carried off on a drive along the Via Aurelia through Lazio and Tuscany. Bruno races past slower cars, jeers at their drivers and presses Roberto to smoke and drink. At the stops Roberto thinks about slipping away, but he cannot tell Bruno that he would rather be home. He confides that he admires Valeria, the neighbor across the street to whom he has never spoken.
Cast
- Bruna Simionatoas Zia Enrica
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- John Francis Laneas Alfredo - avvocato cugino di Roberto
- Aldo Giannias Young man on the rocks at the end (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Il Sorpasso (1962)
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- Martin Scorsese cited Il sorpasso as "the model" for his 1986 film The Color of Money, pointing to its mentor-and-corrupted-youth relationship, while Alexander Payne said he borrowed elements of it for his Academy Award-winning Sideways (2004).
- In 2008 Il sorpasso was picked for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's "100 Italian films to be saved", a list of 100 films said to have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.
