Cars
Cars & Movies 4. Alfa and Lancia: Italian freedom
Italian cars such as Lancia and Alfa Romeo have played an important role in films, portraying freedom and pleasure in life.
When a film is about freedom, pleasure and the joy of living, an Italian spider is right at home. If the plot then transforms this carefree sentiment into a tragedy like it did in the magnificent “Il Sorpasso”, in which a beautiful Lancia Aurelia B24 is the blameless accomplice at the end of a day that was as special as it was unexpected for Jean Louis Trintignant, this Italianness adds a touch of life’s bitter reality.
Lancia and Alfa Romeo are simply perfect in these roles. With the inimitable design of the Alfa Romeo “Duetto”, a fascinating “bar of soap” that emerged from the pencil of Pininfarina, the star of The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s message is clear: you only live once. If we then want to talk about a director like Federico Fellini, who made the surreal his signature style of his films, what better than a Giulietta spider to relive the Dolce Vita?
