Il bell'Antonio

Il bell'Antonio ("Handsome Antonio") is a 1960 Italian-French drama directed by Mauro Bolognini, adapted by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gino Visentini from Vitaliano Brancati's 1949 novel of the same name; the adaptation shifted the story's fascist-era setting to the film's contemporary present. Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale star in a wry examination of masculinity, image and social expectation in provincial Sicilian society.

Supported by Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli and Tomas Milian, the film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and was later named to Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage list of "100 Italian films to be saved" in 2008, cementing its place among the works judged to have shaped the country's collective cinematic memory.