The Audience (1972)

Original title

L'udienza

Directed by

Marco Ferreri

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to get an audience with the Pope but faces endless bureaucratic obstacles. His quest becomes increasingly absurd as the system resists him at every turn.

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What happens

The Audience (Italian: L'udienza, French: L'Audience) is a 1972 Italian–French satirical drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. In 2008, the film was included in 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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