12pt9<p><a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Bales2023FilmChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bales2023FilmChallenge</span></a> April 3: <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Party</span></a> on <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/WorldPartyDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldPartyDay</span></a></p><p>To support his family, small-town boy Domenico moves to <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Milan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milan</span></a> in the hope to find a <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a>. Eventually he's employed, as a clerk in a drab office replacing a senior worker who died. While the days drag on, only interrupted by coffee shop small talk with fellow <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/teenager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teenager</span></a> Antonietta, the <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Christmas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christmas</span></a> office <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/party" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>party</span></a> draws nearer.</p><p>With the dark absurdity of coming out of fascism and having to run a real-world country with a naive ineptitude – represented by the too-large-borrowed-from-father-suits – and pretence childlike bureaucratic procedures, Ermanno Olmi's Il posto [The Job] (1961) is a wonderfully sharp observation of <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/postwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postwar</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/ErmannoOlmi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ErmannoOlmi</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/Neorealismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neorealismo</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/neorealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neorealism</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/ComingOfAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComingOfAge</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/TeenangeAngst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeenangeAngst</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/FilMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FilMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://cinematheque.social/tags/CineMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CineMastodon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>film</span></a></span> <a href="https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bale</span><span class="invisible">s2023filmchallenge/</span></a></p>