What a pleasant comedy! The style resembles the Italian pink Neorealismo, like its characters and situations. One could think we are in the Rome of the movies of Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli: cheerful and big families, neighbourhood love affairs, street boys, jealousy and gossip, merry wives at the window who mind the others' business, solidarity, a kind of background high spirits and good heart which soften small sorrows. Besides this, the director is good in making fun of some fads of that time, but after all of the people of all times, only the object changes. In this case it is the fixation for a car, which is nothing else as a way to show off and be envied by neighbours, and seem rich and high-ranking. The irony on these human failings is gentle and jokey, and the movie is pervaded by a light humour, interrupted here and there by some belly-laugh. Actors are all good. They do not take themselves too seriously, and this is maybe the reason why they produce laughter when they give themselves airs of rich and polite persons. Despite the plot, which could at first seem a mockery of western capitalism, the target of the movie is not this one. On the contrary, one can see here and there a sally to the Yugoslavia of that time, between high import custom duties and inland inflation. The movie was shot in the beautiful and sunny Piran, with the shop signs in Slovene and Italian. Of the same director I recommend the film "Vesna" (1953).
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