Synopsis
Allegro non troppo (1976) is Bruno Bozzetto's animated comedy, free to watch online on iFILM. It is a sharp Italian send-up of Disney's Fantasia: a handful of drawn vignettes set to classical music, stitched together by black-and-white live-action skits.
The framing gag is the studio itself. A tyrant conductor whips an orchestra of little old ladies into shape while the animator works in chains down in a cellar. Out of that mess come the films — Vivaldi, Debussy, Stravinsky, Dvořák, Ravel and Sibelius. A whole evolution of life crawls forward to Ravel's Boléro; a stray cat wanders the ruins of a demolished house. Not a word of dialogue, and none needed.
Bozzetto folds satire, surrealism and real melancholy into something more pointed than most live-action pictures of its day. Maurizio Nichetti plays the caged animator and carries the near-silent slapstick around the edges. If you love Fantasia but want its meaner, sadder cousin, this is the one. Stream Allegro non troppo (1976) online on iFILM.
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