Italian director Dino Risi, 91
Posted: Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 11:38 amDecember 23, 1916 - June 7, 2008
There is a brief but telling scene in Dino Risi’s Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life, 1962) that encapsulates his vision as a film-maker. In it, Vittorio Gassman’s playboy parks his racer illegally, and then casually tucks under the windscreen wiper the parking ticket from a neighbouring car so as to avoid getting a fine himself. …
