Il signor Max

I love Vittorio De Sica, and he's great as always, but this film owes it's best moments to Assia Norris. I've never seen her act better or look prettier. The most thrilling scene was one without dialogue where De Sica was singing on a stage and Norris watches with such emotion. It's the type of scene that should be studied by film students.

The movie was very frustrating in parts, but the good parts more than made up for it. I find it annoying when otherwise intelligent characters don't think their actions through.

I would have turned the movie off near the beginning, but I had heard such good reviews of it that I kept watching, and I'm very happy that I did.

The plot of this movie is such a trope of someone pretending to be two different people, that I was expecting the same old thing I've seen many times before, but this film was executed so well that it seems different, though I can't say where.