Talcum Powder
Original title: Borotalco
Year: 1982
Director: Carlo Verdone
Country of origin: Italy
“Talcum Powder” is characterized by a sense of unconscious tenderness of the protagonist, a mixture of danger and insecurity, recklessness and frankness. These essential characteristics of the protagonist, Sergio, are also a portrait of a youth in the early 1980s, at the height of life in a period of optimism and well-being, with the decades of protests and terrorism apparently overcome and the full irruption of globalization still a long way off. It’s a sweet movie in the best sense, a funny story in which few things turn out the way you’d expect and which, even with the typical melancholy of director Carlo Verdone, represents well the snapshot of a precise moment in Italian cinema and society. Winner in five categories, including Best Film, at the David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s main film awards.
Source: translated and adapted Anonima Cinefili.
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