Word: olmi
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...SOUND OF TRUMPETS. In this sensitive first film. Director Ermanno Olmi places one gentle Italian lad inside a large business building and poignantly documents his long, hard climb to clerical nonentity behind a desk of his very...
...SOUND OF TRUMPETS. In this sensitive first film, Director Ermanno Olmi places one gentle Italian lad inside a large business building and poignantly documents his long, hard climb to clerical non-entity behind a desk of his very...
...possibly fail to affect the personnel manager of a Carthaginian salt mine. It will certainly make every warmhearted moviegoer care and care deeply what happens to Domenico-and to many more than Domenico. For in this remarkable first film, the work of a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, Domenico is the surrogate of every mother's son who ever sold his labor for a sad little living. With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that begins with a free soul and ends...
...lucky ones," Domenico thinks, and Director Olmi does not explicitly contradict him. He simply watches the boy put on his uniform, sit at his desk, run an errand here and an errand there, find out how bosses talk to office boys ("Will power works miracles!"), pick up some wisdom at the water cooler ("Never trust a man with two nostrils"), peer into his first pay envelope, start a little office romance (Loredana Detto), survive a big office party, inspect a dozen dismal, petty employees who function as industrial implements but do not live...
...film is scarcely enough to establish a reputation, but in Olmi's case there is more than one film to go on. He made 40 documentaries before Trumpets; many of them are excellent. And his second feature film (The Fiancés), shown at the New York Film Festival, proved to be a masterly examination of an old Italian tradition: the long engagement. In both full-length pictures, Olmi's art is clearly the art of a fine documentarist, an art that tries to be more like life than life itself. He is a social realist without...