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Il Posto | Cinema Year One

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Jun 23, 2021
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Credit: Janus Films

Alonso Aguilar

In the first scene of Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto (1961), protagonist Domenico (Sandro Panseri) lies beneath his bed sheets with his eyes wide open. The lighting suggests it might be just around dawn, yet the working class studio flat he shares with his family is already brimming with life. His mother fixes his father’s lunc…

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