Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy, France, Belgium
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
- island
- fisherman
- letter
- melancholy
- postman
- poet
- naples
- italy
- love
- poverty
- 1950s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Massimo Troisi
Mario Ruoppolo
Philippe Noiret
Pablo Neruda
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Beatrice Russo
Renato Scarpa
Telegrapher
- Linda Moretti — Donna Rosa
- Mariano Rigillo — Di Cosimo
- Anna Bonaiuto — Matilde
- Sergio Solli — Peasant
- Carlo Di Maio — Priest
- Nando Neri
- Vincenzo Di Sauro
- Orazio Stracuzzi
- Alfredo Cozzolino — Di Cosimo's Associate
- Simona Caparrini — Elsa Morante (uncredited)
- Calogero Azzaretto — Bookseller (uncredited)
- Directed
- Michael Radford
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 1,235 ratings
- Studio
- Esterno Mediterraneo Film, Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica, K2 Two, Blue Dahlia Productions, Penta Film
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
