La vita agra (1964)
- Directed by
- Carlo Lizzani
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 51 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man moves from the countryside to Milan with big ambitions but finds himself struggling with the frantic pace and absurdities of city life. The film follows his disillusionment as he tries to fit into a world of consumerism and empty promises.
satiricalbleakly comicpensiveurbanrestlessdisillusionedsharp-witted
What happens
La vita agra is a 1964 Italian film by director Carlo Lizzani, based on Luciano Bianciardi's novel of the same name. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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