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Rating: The meeting of two simple and noble souls in a deserted summer Milan, Olmi manages to tell the story of these people, their feelings, the true goodness of heart through the simple, very simple filming of a few summer days of this professor and this young woman, two solitudes in the city, but also united by a way of seeing, perceiving reality with a poetic, perhaps naive but therefore authentic nobility of soul.
The story is about this somewhat eccentric, partly obsessive, and bizarre professor who works as a map illustrator, has a passion for bestowing noble titles on people (but not based on nobility, rather on their nobility of heart, which perhaps is the true nobility) also to make ends meet; on a summer afternoon in Milan, he encounters this girl always running away from everything, always on the go, and the deserted city will be the backdrop to their meetings where he will make her a princess, behaving like a true medieval knight when she is offended by a small incident.
This man would continue to dispense titles until the law harshly makes him realize that he is committing a crime, and amidst those who call him paranoid and criminal, his "princess" arrives to defend him and thus give him happiness: at the end of the film, each in this summer meeting has learned to be a little like the other: he to escape, run away like her and the girl to use the professor's poetic eyes.
The plot is perhaps the flaw of this film as it is quite sparse, a bit weak, but the hand of Olmi is felt both in the images of everyday life, in the splendid images that perfectly render the melancholic atmosphere of summers in the city, and in the intense lyricism of some scenes.
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