Ghost of a flea

Compagna di viaggio

Asia is very wild, violent and spiritual, all at the same time

Italian Cinema Week at the Flea™ continues with a proper Italian film. It is a good thing I read the back of the dvd box before watching Compagna di viaggio (Travelling Companion) or I would have had no idea what was going on. Probably an Italian cinema thing. Every French film I have watched this year has included an argument about phone etiquette. What does it mean? No idea. But it is clearly a recurring trope so it does not surprise me when seemingly irrelevent phone bickering breaks out.

Compagna di viaggio is not inexplicable in the same way. I had a hard time figuring out why, for example, director Peter del Monte wanted it to look like it was shot on a Super 8. Perhaps it was. Still, it is a quirky, moving film. A grand-daughter (almost) helping her slightly dotty grand-dad tie his tie is the sort of schmaltz that sucks me in. And of course it is lovely to watch Argento speaking Italian. And smoking.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 31, 2004 08:57 AM

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