There is no cinematography, the music is scarce as decoration, and the plot is extremely doubtful. There is no action, and although the direction and actors are good, you start watching the film and enduring it for the sole reason that you hope anything will happen sometime, which it never does; the only result of having suffered it to the end being that you find out you have wasted a lot of time on nonsense. Genovese appears to have made other meaningless films like this, and the only thing you learn from him is not to watch another film by Genovese. Italian films are usually quite good in every aspect, but unfortunately there are also Italian films that are no good in any aspect.

Brilliant film that succeeds thanks only to dialogue to get you into the plot like few other films do. Extremely entertaining and original, it demonstrates how even without showing anything a film can entertain and intrigue beyond belief.

Sigh. It's too bad that film studios don't really tell you what a film is going to be like instead of using fake superlatives like "Exciting!", "A Must See!", "Best Picture Of The Year!" etc., etc. "The Place," by all means, is a stinker. The acting, at least, was believable, but the story line was WAAAAY to ridiculous and fantastical to be taken seriously. I guess I should've known I was in for a scripted bore just by the plane, uninteresting, boring title alone. Stay. Far. Away.