Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He subordinates all his interests - work, the newspaper, friends - to the urgent task of winning back Annie, with whom he had previously had an affair.
Acting
Volonté's sweaty desperation in tailored suits.
Cinematography
Paris 1968 captured like a fading postcard.
Director
Giorgio Bontempi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the actual May 1968 protests, though you'd barely know it — the film's deliberate avoidance of revolutionary fervor feels almost perverse now.
Bontempi never directed again after this; Volonté reportedly called it 'a film about a man who cannot arrive anywhere, made by a director who never arrived anywhere.'
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