35mm

Numbered Days

I giorni contati
Elio Petri

After quitting his job, a middle-aged plumber is diagnosed with a terminal condition, and decides to wander the streets in this melancholy meditation on modern life and consumer values.

DIRECTOR
Elio Petri
YEAR
1962
COUNTRY
Italy
RUNTIME
93 minutes
LANGUAGE
Italian with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
I giorni contati
START DATE
May 24, 2015

Cesare (Salvo Randone), a widowed plumber, witnesses a man his age suffer a fatal heart attack on a tram. Deeply shaken by this death, Cesare quits his job—and then discovers he too has a heart condition. He resolves to explore the city around him, scrutinizing the social expectations that have guided his life up until this point. Co-scripted by the prodigious Tonino Guerra, who wrote Amarcord and Blow-Up, this melancholy meditation on modern life and consumer values offers some of the most exquisite night photography of Rome ever committed to celluloid.

Numbered Days

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