Product Details

• Actors: Loredana Detto, Sandro Panseri, Mara Revel, Tullio Kezich
• Directors: Ermanno Olmi
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Criterion
• DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000093NR1
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,842 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Il Posto (The Criterion Collection)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

A teenager comes to the big city to work and finds himself at the bottom of the hierarchy in a large company.
Genre: Foreign Film - Italian
Rating: UN
Release Date: 24-JUN-2003
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love and loneliness, October 4, 2004

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Paul Hrissikopoulos (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Il Posto (The Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Note that also included on this DVD is a short film Olmi did for Italian television called La Cotta. It is surely one of the most charming morsels of cinema ever made, and alone would be worth the price of this disk.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Filmmaking At It's Best!, February 19, 2004

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RLY (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Il Posto (The Criterion Collection) (DVD)

Five brilliant stars for two brilliant performances by Sandro Panseri and the beautiful Loredana Detto and to Ermanno Olmi for a masterful job in creating this wonderful film. I've watched this film several times after recently purchasing the DVD and I am amazed at how a film such as this can be constructed to convey the full spectrum of emotions. Why would anyone ever need to make a film with "special effects" when the most amazing "special effect" ever created is the human face and Sandro Panseri as Domenico in this film is so convincing and brilliant. I was one with Domenico, experiencing each and every emotion. The scenes between Domenico(Sandro Panseri)and Antonietta (Loredana Detto)are very moving and special and the scenes between Domenico and his brother are priceless. The DVD extras are very interesting; the interview with Ermanno Olmi, the film restoration demonstration as well as the written material that accompanies the DVD. Working for a corporation and in an office environment for many years, I can relate to many aspects of this film. Plus it's filmed in beautiful black and white! The great thing about viewing the DVD is the ability to freeze a frame and focus on an image of an aspect of life as portrayed in this film. Grazie a Ermanno Olmi, Sandro Panseri e Loredana Detto. Complimenti! Che bravo! Grazie ancora!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, February 7, 2004

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Futoshi J. Tomori - See all my reviews

This review is from: Il Posto (The Criterion Collection) (DVD)

If anything else, Olmi's film is about human grace. The movie follows the life of a young man who's looking for a job to supplement his family's income. There's a social undercurrent to the film, but Olmi's concern is far more humanistic. He's interested in the joys and disappointments of his characters. I found the sequence when the young man attempts to hook-up with the young woman both touching and awkward. More importantly, at one point in the movie, the camera follows the lives of the other people in the company to reveal their lives already lived and filled with everyday drama. Kudos for Criterion for releasing this film to a wider audience. It's beyond me why the movie's not widely known. It should be up there in the pantheon of the great Italian neo-realist films.