N.091 - L’ultimo Cavalluccio

“Excuse me, what happened…?" So, in Così Parlò Bellavista, Riccardo Pazzaglia is has a nephew, and it al happens on his birthday. The child makes a simple but very specific request for his gift: a red rocking horse. His uncle searches all over the market until he spots ‘the last red rocking horse made in Naples.’ Overjoyed, he pulls over, leaves the car open, and that’s when it happens: an attempted theft of the car radio. Even though he had one eye on the horse and one on the car! The story, retold and enriched each time by the interactions of the crowd gathered in a circle to listen, is a true gem of Luciano De Crescenzo’s cinema and of his 1984 masterpiece. A snapshot of society, of the city and its people, both amusing, with its unmistakable Neapolitan theatricality, and thought-provoking, with a bittersweet ending.