Musica per vecchi animali (1989) User Reviews

peripheral heroes in action

[nmspia · 9/10 · 28 March 2006]

As it often happens, some very nice films are completely avoided and hated from the television. You can be lucky to see one of these but usually you will loose them. "Musica per vecchi animali" is one of these. In an Italian town, Bologna, and in an unknown future, three people (a child, a young man and an old man) decide for different reason and at different times to cross the city during a critical day. There is a strange emergency, there is democracy but no one is free and the city is invaded by military and police. They meet each other during the travel and decide to continue together: they will have to experience a lot of difficulties. In a reality where all seems to be controlled from a small group of rich but unhappy people, each of them will help the other to survive until the arrival to the foreseen destination. The film sometimes seems to be an incomplete creature, but the presence of exhilarating situations in a pessimistic background scenario make this film irresistible.

Great movie...

[Dr. H · 10/10 · 4 June 1999]

the subject of the movie was written by Stefano Benni, in my opinion one of the most talented surrealistic italian writers.

The movie is settled in an Italian big town, in a strange surrealistic post-consumistic era. Professor Lucio Lucertola (Nobel Prize Dario Fo), Lee the mechanic (talented Paolo Rossi), and Lupetta (a nice little girl) are going to go through the town, to get their different aims. But in town there's a strange "emergency", and they'll have to cope with the strange animals (men) who live in the town. It's a great movie, it will make you laugh, it will make you cry. And think.