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Teacher from Vigevano, The [Available Feb. 27 via streaming on MUBI.] Elio Petri's enjoyable, black-and-white, low-key, gloomy, funny, unpredictable, 105-minute, 1963 dark comedy adapted from Lucio Mastronardi's novel in which the life of an underpaid, frustrated, discouraged Italian elementary schoolteacher (Alberto Sordi), who has a feisty son (Tullio Scovazzi), spirals out of control after his teacher best friend (Guido Spadea) commits suicide, he resigns his job to please his dissatisfied wife (Claire Bloom) who dreams of being wealthy to impress others, gets into trouble with the law due to underhanded financial shenanigans when he starts a shoemaking business, learns his duplicitous wife has been hanging out with a wealthy shoe factory owner (Piero Mazzarella) when an accident occurs, and then decides to return to teaching despite having to work with the nosey, controlling principal (Vito De Taranto).
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