• Director(s)

    Dino Risi

  • Production Year

    1962

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    108m

  • Cast

    Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean Louis trintignant

Film

Il Sorpasso

infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, discrimination

IL SORPASSO is an Italian comic drama, from 1962, in which an older man takes a shy law student on a raucous road trip around Italy. …

IL SORPASSO is an Italian comic drama, from 1962, in which an older man takes a shy law student on a raucous road trip around Italy.

language
Infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') occurs and is accompanied by milder terms such as 'hooker', 'bastard', 'piss', 'crap', 'ass', 'damn', 'God', 'jerk' and 'hell'.
sex
Scenes contain moderate sex references including a man calling women 'easy' as well as mentions of adultery, virginity, sex workers and people being 'horny'. Male characters leer at women's buttocks and comment on their appearance. In one scene, a man shouts out of his car window at two women, follows them to a cemetery before another man says they should leave them alone. In another, he comments that a woman started screaming and scratching at his face after he kissed her strongly suggesting it was an unwanted advance.
discrimination
There is use of the homophobic terms 'fag' and 'faggot'. In an attempt at irony, a man calls a Black woman 'paleface' and white children 'darkies'. A man says he isn't racist because he has slept with a Black and a Jewish woman. A character briefly alludes to the racist policies of the Italian Fascist Party in a positive manner. A man calls an overweight woman 'fatty'.
additional issues
A man frequently drives erratically and dangerously and on occasion drunk and there is sight of car crashes. After he runs two men off the road, they find him and start a fight. Characters display mild bloody injury detail on their faces in the aftermath of car accidents and a fight. A man smokes frequently throughout the film.

  • Director(s)

    Dino Risi

  • Production Year

    1962

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    108m

  • Cast

    Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean Louis trintignant

infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, discrimination
Classified Date:
21/06/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Radiance Films
language
Infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') occurs and is accompanied by milder terms such as 'hooker', 'bastard', 'piss', 'crap', 'ass', 'damn', 'God', 'jerk' and 'hell'.
sex
Scenes contain moderate sex references including a man calling women 'easy' as well as mentions of adultery, virginity, sex workers and people being 'horny'. Male characters leer at women's buttocks and comment on their appearance. In one scene, a man shouts out of his car window at two women, follows them to a cemetery before another man says they should leave them alone. In another, he comments that a woman started screaming and scratching at his face after he kissed her strongly suggesting it was an unwanted advance.
discrimination
There is use of the homophobic terms 'fag' and 'faggot'. In an attempt at irony, a man calls a Black woman 'paleface' and white children 'darkies'. A man says he isn't racist because he has slept with a Black and a Jewish woman. A character briefly alludes to the racist policies of the Italian Fascist Party in a positive manner. A man calls an overweight woman 'fatty'.
additional issues
A man frequently drives erratically and dangerously and on occasion drunk and there is sight of car crashes. After he runs two men off the road, they find him and start a fight. Characters display mild bloody injury detail on their faces in the aftermath of car accidents and a fight. A man smokes frequently throughout the film.

  • Classified date

    21/06/2023

  • Language

    Italian