Roma bene

The film is about a set of characters moving through the high society of Rome. Every one of them is after their own interest and none is what they appear to be. Instead of building a single plot, the account moves from scene to scene. Those transitions go by like a parade. The film does not defend that circle, but it does not make monsters of the individuals either. How money and position decide relationships is the real subject. It comes from the hard vein of social comedy in Italian cinema of 1971. Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi and Irene Papas appear in Carlo Lizzani’s ninety four minute film, a joint German, Italian and French production, completed in 1971.