Ecce Bombo

Ecce Bombo

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Release Date

3/8/1978

Runtime

103 mins

Overview

Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl.

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Budget

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Revenue

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A deadpan portrait of four disillusioned intellectuals drifting through their thirties, where grand ideological debates collapse into domestic comedy and romantic confusion. It's a film that finds both humor and sadness in the gap between youthful political promise and adult purposelessness.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulAbsurdContemplative

Themes

Coming of ageIdentityFriendship

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Ensemble

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