From a Roman Balcony (1960)

Euro International Film
Directed by Mauro Bolognini
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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A day in the life of Jean Sorel: he lives in poverty in the slums of Rome with a young wife and baby. He sets out to get a job supposedly to buy food, but instead roves around having sex with various women. He never does get that job, so steals from a corpse in order not to come home empty handed. The roving plot allows us to see the social strata that existed in 1960 Rome, but the central character is so unlikeable it's hard to care about anything he does. Crisply photographed in black and white by Aldo Scavarda, including an incredible and poetic opening shot that the rest of the movie just cannot live up to.