This and That

This and That

1983 · 119 min · IT · 4.8 (23 votes)
Dir. Sergio Corbucci · Starring Renato Pozzetto, Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Janet Ågren, Michela Miti, Désirée Nosbusch · Music Luciano Rossi
Comedy

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.

VIBE

A charmingly offbeat diptych exploring the whimsical side of love and artistic blocks. It feels like flipping through a vintage European comic, full of playful observations and a touch of surreal romance.

quirkylightheartedromanticwittysteadyEuropean arthouseepisodicretrolovecreativityobsessionmemory
italyobsessioncomic strip
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