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Un Certo Giorno (1969) Ermanno Olmi; Brunetto Del Vita
Un Certo Giorno (1969) Ermanno Olmi; Brunetto Del Vita
 
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In Italian with English subtitles. Also known as One Fine Day or A Certain Day.

Un Certo Giorno is a carefully detailed study of a middle-aged, middle-class man named Bruno, the assistant managing director of an advertising agency, with a wife, family and mistress. When his boss suddenly retires after suffering a heart attack, Bruno gets his job. The film examines his sensitivity towards his old boss, whom he doesn't want to hurt, towards his employees, and towards his wife and mistress. In 1969, anyone else would have been merciless with such a bourgeois subject, but Olmi (working with a non-actor named Brunetto del Vita, whose own life was very close to his character's) refused to judge his hero, and looked at him and his prototypical situation with an extraordinary amount of tenderness and clarity. "Olmi observes people as they are, and not as he would wish them to be. He will not make them serve other purposes at the expense of their individuality." This feature appeared at the 1969 New York Film Festival.

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5 of 5 Early Olmi January 25, 2018
Reviewer: J. Caps from United States  
As usual, the great humanistic Italian director Ermanno Olmi presents a character caught up in modern, routine, commercialized life, and throws him a curve -- a situation where he is forced to take responsibility for his own actions and empathize with those around him.  And even though he begins with characters and an office setting that you don't want to care about, it isn't long before you're drawn in. The pace is fairly slow; the drama is all internal, but Olmi makes it matter.  The title translates to "One Fine Day".

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5 of 5 5 Stars October 5, 2017
Reviewer: Thomas DeRoberto from Paramus, NJ United States  
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