Bolognini was a director who respected the linear story, paying his respects to the organic growth of the characters, and the rules of the plot. The Enamored treats the loves, intrigues and troubles of a Roman neighborhood and its people-mostly its youth-in a realistic manner, but with great flair. The comedy takes place in a single Rome square, beautifully shot by Massimo Sallusti. The inhabitants of this piazza are a colorful group, filled with heartaches and hauntings. There's the soft-drink vendor wooing the tavern-keeper's wife; the seamstress bursting at the seams for the local mechanic; and the young kid whose kleptomania is cured by a first love. Bolognini achieved some notoriety with The Enamored, a comedy that turned him towards a peculiar brand of optimistic Neo-realism. By the late '50s, he would begin a series of more serious collaborations with Pier Paolo Pasolini.