Il ragazzo di campagna (1984)
- Directed by
- Giuseppe Moccia, Franco Castellano
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- T
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 413 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A naive country man moves to Milan and struggles to make sense of the city's fast-paced and chaotic life. The film uses his misadventures to poke fun at the contradictions of 1980s Italian urban living.
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What happens
Il ragazzo di campagna ("The country boy") is a 1984 Italian comedy film directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Il ragazzo di campagna has a cult status in Italian culture in its satyrical representation of the contradictions of the hectic life in Milan in the mid-1980s, the years of the sorpasso (e.g., when Artemio resolves to take a taxi cab to cross the street in the impossibly trafficked Piazza San Babila). The inadequateness of Pozzetto-"country boy" in relating to Milan is reminiscent of that of Totò in another extremely popular film, Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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