[1][2] Laura, a lawyer who comes from an upper-class Milanese family, leads an altogether placid life.
After witnessing an almost-fatal motorcycle accident near her family's country home, she becomes obsessed with the young victim, leading to a series of flashbacks and introspective instants that probe the bourgeois life she leads.
Critic Derek Elley titled The Circumstance a "romantic highpoint in Olmi's oeuvre" and "his most accomplished piece of work.
"[3] The Circumstance was screened at Film at Lincoln Center in 2019 as part of a retrospective on Olmi's work.
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