Schulkameraden (1988)

Schulkameraden: Directed by Carlo Verdone. With Carlo Verdone, Christian De Sica, Nancy Brilli, Eleonora Giorgi. Former high-school friends meet for a party after 15 years, but discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.

“I think this is a movie you have to see. We loved the Verdone of u0026#39;Un Sacco bellou0026#39;, u0026#39;Bianco Rosso e Verdoneu0026#39; and u0026#39;Borotalcou0026#39;, the evolution of the Commedia allu0026#39;Italiana of 60s and 70s. Here we have something different,something more cynic and more sad, but still funny and worth watching. In the same period (end of u0026#39;80s) a historic participant of the Commedia allu0026#39;Italiana era, Mario Monicelli, made movies with a similar atmosphere (I am thinking of Parenti Serpenti for example).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI think that Verdoneu0026#39;s career is very similar, in its evolution, to Woody Allenu0026#39;s. Woody started playing the funny loser who seldom has a girlfriend, just like Verdone in the first movies. Then, Woody started to change and became a very serious and talented director. Verdone attempted the same road, with success in this movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen the later Woody Allen scored some ups and downs (he did lately very trivial movies, like u0026#39;donu0026#39;t drink the wateru0026#39;, and wonderful gems, like u0026#39;deconstructing harryu0026#39;, u0026#39;match pointu0026#39;). In the same way, later on Verdone did useless movies (Il cinese in coma, for example) and some little gem, like Iris Blond.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis movie is in the middle of these two parts of Verdoneu0026#39; carrer. Itu0026#39;s a very realistic movie, you will identify with one of the characters for sure. Donu0026#39;t miss this one.”