#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 3: #Party on #WorldPartyDay

To support his family, small-town boy Domenico moves to #Milan in the hope to find a #job. Eventually he's employed, as a clerk in a drab office replacing a senior worker who died. While the days drag on, only interrupted by coffee shop small talk with fellow #teenager Antonietta, the #Christmas office #party draws nearer.

With the dark absurdity of coming out of fascism and having to run a real-world country with a naive ineptitude – represented by the too-large-borrowed-from-father-suits – and pretence childlike bureaucratic procedures, Ermanno Olmi's Il posto [The Job] (1961) is a wonderfully sharp observation of #postwar #Italy.

#film #cinema #ErmannoOlmi #Neorealismo #neorealism #ComingOfAge #TeenangeAngst #bureaucracy #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/