Altri tempi
It's funny how Italian cinema has a tradition in episode films, either by different directors or with the same director, as is the case. Altri tempi is a costumbrista proposal that brings together various stories, some of them by prestigious authors, with the common thread of an old bookseller played by Aldo Fabrizi.
Episode movies usually have the problem of the difference of interest between one and the other, to which it must be added that the link of the past time that backbones the story seems too weak to me. However, there are very funny shorts, others endearing, that may interest film "archaeologists".
Altri tempi is not a film that allows us to evaluate the Italian cinema of its time, surely more defined by post-war neorealism, but it helps us to realize that in any cinematography there is more cinema than what we take for representative and that we it can help you have a more complete view of the moment.
