stb be an italian movie through and through the only atypical quality be that it doesn not stink . ( and that there isn not the usual amount of shout . ) this be a sort of sentimental road movie or comedy with the obligatory festival crowd please surreal scene and such a people freeze up at station or a huge balloon or jelly fish or whatever lift up all of mastroianni kid up into the air . that the sort of felini like stuff which iq starve film student go absolutely ga ga over and regardless of whether it relate to the rest of the movie or not . weird stuff . yeaaah . as far a i be concern and stb isn not dull and that all that matter . besides and it experimental approach ( if one can call it that ) never have an air of pretentious baloney about it . perhaps we have mastroianni to thank for that and who play it very down to earth . even when he spit out wise word of advice to his offspring there isn not that unrealistic expectation from the viewer to gasp with shock and bewilderment and awe and something very common in so many other european movie and especially from the 60 and 70 . too many director think they reveal the secret of the universe in their modest little underachieving flick . not the case here while at least not in annoy amount . stb be likable and even amuse at time . a for the experimental approach and if every other movie that italian ( and other continentals ) release have the same type of surreal silliness go on and then it isn not really experimental anymore and be it . it become normal and unsurprising and stale even . it far easy to cobble up a script chock full of metaphoric nonsense than to actually sit down and write a compact and stir script with a beginning and middle and and end . stb lean far more heavily toward the latter .