Bellavista's daughter is engaged to a young architect who is unemployed. It is said that unemployment is the perennial occupation of Naples. Lina Wertmüller's "Ciao, Professore" charts some of this same territory. His rational, logical, methodically north-Italian, north-European style comes into direct conflict with the customs and manners of the locals. Cazzaniga (Renato Scarpa) transferred to the city of Partenope for business reasons. Like the stories of Giuseppe Marotta in "The Gold of Naples" and the De Sica film based on that work, the movie evokes the Neapolitan spirit: garrulous, uncannily shrewd and worldly-wise, poetic, life-affirming, musical, and ever passionate about love The film is set into motion by the arrival from Milan of Dr. The title translates as "Thus Spoke Bellavista," or as in the case of the Avril Bardoni translation, published in Britain, of Luciano De Crescenzo's book on which this film was based, "Thus Spake Bellavista." The movie is a collection of Neapolitan vignettes, united by the philosophical words of Gennaro Bellavista, an amiable retired professor of philosophy whose friends, neighbors, and co-Neapolitans we are able to observe.
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