1960

2010
1h 15m

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The Filmmaker Gabriele Salvatore has made his own personal story together with archive footage to create a picture of the economic and creative uprising of Italy in 1960.The Filmmaker Gabriele Salvatore has made his own personal story together with archive footage to create a picture of the economic and creative uprising of Italy in 1960.The Filmmaker Gabriele Salvatore has made his own personal story together with archive footage to create a picture of the economic and creative uprising of Italy in 1960.

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6.8/10

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Giuseppe Cederna

Narrator
(voice)

Michelangelo Antonioni

Self
(archive footage)

Brigitte Bardot

Self
(archive footage)

Mike Bongiorno

Self
(archive footage)

Fred Buscaglione

Self
(archive footage)

Claudia Cardinale

Self
(archive footage)

Adriano Celentano

Self
(archive footage)

Dino De Laurentiis

Self
(archive footage)

Vittorio De Sica

Self
(archive footage)

Anita Ekberg

Self
(archive footage)

Federico Fellini

Self
(archive footage)

Giorgio Gaber

Self
(archive footage)

Vittorio Gassman

Self
(archive footage)

Giovanni Gronchi

Self
(archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self
(archive footage)

Sophia Loren

Self
(archive footage)

Marcello Mastroianni

Self
(archive footage)

Mina

Self
(archive footage)

Director
- Gabriele Salvatores
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9/10

A wonderful and very interesting exploration of nostalgia.

Trust the Italians to make such a wonderful nostalgic piece out of such a novel imaginative idea! Uses a trivial storyline (a young boy's relationship to his much older brother who has left their southern Italian village to find fame and fortune in the north of Italy) as a pretext to surreally stitch together 75 minutes of random, totally unrelated newsreels all shot in Italy in 1960. Difficult to believe how many historic events happened in one year - the making of Fellini's La Dolce Vita, the shooting down of the U2 plane as it spied on the Soviet Union, the Rome Olympics, the election of JFK, etc.

Watch it if only for the unrepeatable stylishness of a sunglasses-wearing Livio Berruti in B/W winning the 200m sprint final at the Rome Olympics, one of the defining mythical images of early post-war Italy (film buffs, read "A Roman Holiday", "La Dolce Vita", "8 1/2", "Umberto D", etc).

And don't be put off by not knowing Italian, if it doesn't have subtitles. It's the images that are mesmerizing, not the rather droll plot line or lightweight newsreel commentary.