An entertaining buddy/road picture made about an energetic, middle-aged extrovert (Vittorio Gassman), taking a younger, shy student (Jean-Louis Trintignant) under wing. The dynamic recalls "Zorba the Greek," the 1946 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, soon to be made into the 1964 film, but, unlike Zorba, no cogent philosophical argument is presented; the music just stops playing.
Review of The Easy Life
