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The Bachelor

1955 · 88 min

A light, bittersweet Italian comedy that gently mocks a man's fear of commitment while revealing the loneliness beneath his freedom.

Overview
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • loneliness
  • family
  • identity
  • freedom
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance5
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Antonio Pietrangeli
Written by
Sandro Continenza, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Antonio Pietrangeli
Starring
Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Nino Manfredi, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, María Asquerino, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Pina Bottin
Music
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Cinematography
Gianni Di Venanzo
Runtime
88 min
Country
Italy
Languages
Italian

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