The Fiances
– A young man has a renewed interest in his girlfriend when he takes a job that separates the two...
16 May 1963
Italian
Ermanno Olmi
Ermanno Olmi
Anna Canzi, Carlo Cabrini
In the industrial North, Giovanni is a skilled factory worker offered a promotion if he'll go to Sicily for 18 months to assist in a new department. His impending absence strains his already nearly wordless relationship with Liliana, his fiancée. They meet regularly at a dance hall and sometimes go riding on his motorcycle. We watch him arrive in Sicily, walk the town, live in a hotel, find lodgings, work, and participate in local events. It's a solitary, melancholy life. In his mind's eye he thinks about Liliana. He hasn't been entirely faithful. There's pain and detachment in her eyes. Across this distance, can anything bring about a breakthrough? Do they have a future?
1 win & 1 nomination.
Criterion Collection