IL POSTO / I FIDANZATI

“One of the glories of the cinema… Il Posto ushered something new into world cinema: a sense of intimacy between director and characters that surpassed anything in the neorealist canon"

-Kent Jones, Toronto International Film Festival

★★★★★ Cinema rarely gets as honest, warm and profoundly touching as Ermanno Olmi's "I Fidanzati". - DVDBeaver

Domenico is thrust into the big city by his family to find a job for life. He’s up for an exam to secure a post along with many hopefuls. There he meets Antonietta (played by Olmi’s then wife Loredana Detto) and the two strike up a friendship and experience the world of work for the first time together. Stunningly shot on the streets of Milan, Ermanno Olmi’s (The Tree of Wooden Clogs) touching and often funny portrait of modern life and work won numerous awards on release and is recognised as a classic of world cinema. 

Giovanni works in a manufacturing plant and takes a promotion that will send him to Sicily. His transfer causes him to leave his fiancée, Liliana, his father and friends behind. Once in Sicily, he begins to wonder if he made the right choice. Stunningly shot, I fidanzati channels the industrial isolation of Antonioni with a dreamy and heartfelt lyricism. 

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 4K restoration of both films from the original camera negatives by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Titanus, presented on two discs

• Uncompressed mono PCM audio for both films

• Appreciation by filmmaker Maurizio Zaccaro (2024, 19 mins)

• Interview with cinematographer Lamberto Caimi on both films (2024, 17 and 11 mins)

• Interview with author Richard Dyer on both films (2024, 39, 23 mins)

• Interview with programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht on Ermanno Olmi (2024, 16 mins)

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista

• Limited edition booklet with new writing by critic Christina Newland

• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings