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Smog 1962 ITA SUB ENG, ITA Telecine XviD

Year: 1962 Country: Italy Director: Franco Rossi Cast: Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Susan Spafford IMBD: Link Language : Italian Subtitles : English, Italian A “forgotten” film from 1962 that can teach us a lot about modernism. Sixty years ago, Franco Rossi's film Smog opened the Venice Film Festival with a completely skeptical view of modern architecture in L.A. Sixty years ago, Franco Rossi's Smog (1962) inaugurated the 23rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. A victim of Titanus' financial collapse and sold prematurely to MGM following the Italian-American co-production, Smog disappeared from circulation. No reviews, even fewer from the public. The only 35mm copy was presented in 2022 at the Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. The first Italian-American film shot entirely in Los Angeles, Smog takes place during a long layover between Los Angeles and Mexico. Forty-eight hours in which Vittorio Ciocchetti, played by Enrico Maria Salerno, a young Roman lawyer, is literally and metaphorically thrown into the flow of city traffic, stripped of his middle-class identity by an imposing flight attendant. The vicissitudes lead the protagonist into a frenetic succession of encounters with Italian immigrants of medium and long standing. A group of no longer so foreign people united by the cry: “We are in America with inventiveness and recklessness.” Comforted by overseas camaraderie, lawyer Ciocchetti will gradually reveal his (rather lowly) nature as a child of the economic boom. In addition to bringing to the screen an Italian view of Italian emigrants in America (including a scene we can never be grateful enough for, in which an Italian bakes a burnt pizza), Smog addresses a fundamental theme for designers: skepticism towards the evolution, proper or improper, of forms of living (or infrastructure). Three buildings that have gone down in the history of modernism are subject to the protagonist's gaze and his consequent condescending judgment: the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, Pierre Koenig's Stahl House, and Bernard Judge's Triponent House. The first, designed in 1961 by Studio Pereira & Luckman, elicits the protagonist's initial reaction: indifference. A disc gliding over the hills of the promised land and supported by four titanic arched legs measuring at least five meters, designed to look down on international passengers and remind them how out of place they are. At its feet (or rather legs), an evocative modular pergola represents the first iconic space to which Ciocchetti dedicates the presumption of someone who is the son of a millennial culture. His passage is marked by the enthusiasm of someone walking through the hallway of his own home. An Italian abroad who is determined not to appear as such. The most in-depth interior is that of the Triponent house, a geodesic dome made of Mylar, the same material used to cover Sputnik. A space of intentional simplicity: aluminum and resin skin, bathroom/kitchen core, and beyond that, space. A form of living that a man does not have to spend most of his working life to afford, in the words of Judge himself. Driven by the primordial instinct to reclaim the surrounding nature, this organically designed construction sums up the industrial and technical potential of post-war America to build low-cost houses that can be an experience for their tenants. Our compatriot's reaction could not be further from the enthusiasm of this quote. The lawyer, clearly amused by the mere thought of being able to use it as a shelter, goes so far as to question, in a conversation with the future owner, the possibility that such a space could contain feelings. "So you're really going to live... how can I put it... in this house? I don't know, only when it rains do I feel anxious, and then do you really believe that there can be feelings, affections, everything that a family requires here..." To be fair, Judge's experiment was rather short-lived, his wife lived in the bubble for only a year and the structure was dismantled in 1977, but Ciocchetti could not have known this. The last environment is represented by the Stahl House, in the plot, the future home of the female protagonist Gabriella (Annie Giradot). Initially designed by its owners, Buck and Carlotta Stahl, it was only assigned to Koening in 1957. A vision that owes much to van der Rohe and certainly represents a form of living closer to tradition than Judge's project. Gabriella, an Italian-American who has left behind a salary of 50 lire paid directly to the maid and the only truly positive character in the plot, is entrusted with the task of humanizing the house. From the moment she accompanies lawyer Ciocchetti through the large glass window, pointing out that this is the front door, to the less pleasant conversations about the death of the previous owners' son, who drowned in the cantilevered swimming pool, which made the sale price affordable. Although unfurnished, the house lives on through the presence of its future owner, reminding us that every refuge is the result of an individual desire, and we cannot help but feel a subtle, childlike emotion when, on the threshold, as she is about to accompany the lawyer to Culver City, she asks him why he does not say goodbye to his house before leaving, in the very real possibility that he will never see it again. Ciocchetti's stalemate, constantly relegated to the interior dimension like every other character, ends circularly with a tête-à-tête between man and architecture, but in contrast to the placid superiority displayed in the walk through the airport, we find him, this time, a prisoner of the Triponent House, in the first and only feral and malignant vision of avant-garde architecture, lulled by the domestic memory of the 18th-century villa of his girlfriend Maria Beatrice, who is waiting for him to return. 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