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Un uomo a metà

  • 19661966
  • 1h 33m
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7.1/10
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Un uomo a metà (1966)
Drama
Michele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis ... Read allMichele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis that detaches him from life, from work, from the neighbor. Hospitalized in the clinic, suc... Read allMichele, a young intellectual, enters an existential crisis when, without realizing it, his conception of life comes into conflict with collective morality. The result is a serious neurosis that detaches him from life, from work, from the neighbor. Hospitalized in the clinic, succeeds, recalling the past, to put together the scattered fragments of his personality. How... Read all
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Vittorio De Seta
  • Writers
    • Vittorio De Seta(story)
    • Fabio Carpi(screenplay)
    • Vera Gherarducci(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jacques Perrin
    • Lea Padovani
    • Ilaria Occhini
  • Director
    • Vittorio De Seta
  • Writers
    • Vittorio De Seta(story)
    • Fabio Carpi(screenplay)
    • Vera Gherarducci(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Jacques Perrin
    • Lea Padovani
    • Ilaria Occhini
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    • 2User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations

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    Dario Di Palma, Ilaria Occhini, and Jacques Perrin in Un uomo a metà (1966)

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    Jacques Perrin
    Jacques Perrin
    • Michele
    Lea Padovani
    Lea Padovani
    • Michele's mother
    Ilaria Occhini
    • Elena
    Gianni Garko
    Gianni Garko
    • Michele's brother
    • (as Gianni Garco)
    Rosemary Dexter
    Rosemary Dexter
    • Marina
    • (as Rosemarie Dexter)
    Pier Paolo Capponi
    Pier Paolo Capponi
    • Ugo
    Francesca De Seta
    • Simonetta
    Kitty Swan
    Kitty Swan
    • Girl at park
    Ivan Rassimov
    Ivan Rassimov
    Anny Degli Uberti
      Renato Montalbano
      Renato Montalbano
      • Director
        • Vittorio De Seta
      • Writers
        • Vittorio De Seta(story) (screenplay)
        • Fabio Carpi(screenplay)
        • Vera Gherarducci(screenplay)
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      • Trivia
        Despite Luciano Tovoli being accredited as camera operator, all the filming of the film was performed by the director Vittorio De Seta. Actually Tovoli's work was finding and testing the locations for the following days of shooting.
      • Connections
        Referenced in Elävältä poltettu noita (1967)

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      9/10
      Overlooked masterpiece. See it.
      The obscurity of this motion picture is hard to explain after having watched it twice. Maybe it got lost in the crowded field of mid 60's art cinema, neglected amid Woman in the Dunes, Persona, Blowup, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Masculin/Feminin, Darling, 2001. And the name of the director may be too similar to that of the director of Bicycle Thieves. It has been known to happen. All I can say is that Un Uomo a Meta blew my mind even without understanding all of the dialogue/voice-over in Italian. There's so much more to this film than the words. De Seta uses the medium to reimagine narrative itself. An amazing cinematic venture into the subjective side of a character in full meltdown mode. Perrin delivers 1000% with his mysteriously tormented Michel. Morricone's music is loud, percussive, even intrusive, but always justifiably so as we accompany Michel on his journey to the abyss. Cinematographer Dario DiPalma gets some superb shots that are hard to describe except by their effect, which feels something like "seeing" mental disintegration in 3D. The focus puller deserves special praise for fearlessly staying out of focus! Overexposure is also employed effectively, years ahead of all those Ralph Lauren commercials. The cuts come rapidly, jarringly, as if anticipating a film aesthetic that still has yet to arrive. There must be some way to get this movie subtitled for presentation to a wider audience. De Seta has made one hell of a movie. In the history of films of dissolution Un Uomo a Meta can be placed in a middle period, after Dimitri Kirsanoff's Menilmontant (1926) and before Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000). Yes, it's that good. I also wonder if Cameron Crowe was aware of Un Uomo a Meta when making Vanilla Sky (2001).
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      • Jan 28, 2014

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      • Release date
        • May 26, 1967 (France)
      • Countries of origin
        • Italy
        • France
      • Languages
        • Italian
        • German
      • Also known as
        • Prawie człowiek
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 33 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.85 : 1

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