Italian comedy film from the thirties which at first glance seems very cute and also funny with a moral that is also nice, then if you look at the moral it is actually a bit contradictory because on the one hand it seems to tell you that if you are from a certain social class it is better if you are left with that you can't pretend to be rich if you're not rich and on the other hand it tells you that if you're unhappy with your situation you have to rebel and not continue to be mistreated. Very light and funny film but with a very melancholic halo and as I said before with this cape made by dubious morals. Done very well as the social classes are characterized, the rich are snobbish and unpleasant, while the others are all more sympathetic and easy-going, a distinction that makes us understand very well throughout the film how the atmosphere is treated.

I love Vittorio De Sica, and he's great as always, but this film owes it's best moments to Assia Norris. I've never seen her act better or look prettier. The most thrilling scene was one without dialogue where De Sica was singing on a stage and Norris watches with such emotion. It's the type of scene that should be studied by film students.

The movie was very frustrating in parts, but the good parts more than made up for it. I find it annoying when otherwise intelligent characters don't think their actions through.

I would have turned the movie off near the beginning, but I had heard such good reviews of it that I kept watching, and I'm very happy that I did.

The plot of this movie is such a trope of someone pretending to be two different people, that I was expecting the same old thing I've seen many times before, but this film was executed so well that it seems different, though I can't say where.