1955 · drama · crime
Il Bidone
Directed by Federico Fellini1h 53m1955
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Carlo, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
Our read: Il Bidone (1955) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
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