THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

Proiezione ufficiale

  • thursday, 28 august 2025
Sala Corinto
14:30
di Don Mcguire

(1957, USA, 101')

Restauro Paramount

Jerry Lewis’s first solo film after parting ways with Dean Martin, the movie blends comedy and pathos in a story of youthful redemption, portraying the protagonist’s transformation from a “despised nobody” into a policeman under the paternal guidance of Darren McGavin. Often criticized for its excessive mix of comic and dramatic tones, the film instead reveals the core of Lewis’s poetics: inadequacy as the driving force of both humor and humanity.

  • thursday, 28 august 2025

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