Pssst, want to check out Tre donne - L'automobile in our new look?
Information
- A.k.a.
- The Automobile
- Year
- 1971
- Runtime
- 93 min.
- Director
- Alfredo Giannetti
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.4
- Votes *
- 17
- Checks
- 14
- Favs
- 2
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 14.3% (1:7)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
The third in an otherwise unavailable trilogy made for Italian television, L'Automobile, like each film in the Three Women series, stars Anna "Mamma Roma" Magnani in the lead (which is intriguing in and of itself). It's a portrait of a modern Italian woman circa 1971, suffering a mid-life crisis that pushes her to buy her first car, and thus... freedom? Passion? Notice? As soon as she makes her decision, it's like everything on screen is a possibly anxiety about owning and driving a car. Everything. If you don't drive or own your own vehicle, this is the movie that confirms your biases about such things, and says you're probably better off. Magnani is unsurprisingly excellent, funny, but also a figure of pathos, putting up a brave front, lying to herself, but also someone we root for in her quest for a kind of individualistic emancipation from a woman of her generation's fate. Fun and at the same time a little heartbreaking. 2 years 8 months ago