1961 · comedy · drama
A Difficult Life
Directed by Dino Risi1h 58m1961
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Our read: A Difficult Life (1961) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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