In one of the greatest accomplishments of the Neorealist film movement, Vittorio De Sica dedicates this film to his father and effectively captures the grim life of the elderly in post-war Italy. The film paints a vividly emotional picture of Umberto D. (Carlo Battisti non-proessional actor – a university professor from Florence), an older man [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 09.28.2007 at 4:00 pm// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Drama, Entertainment, Italian Cinema, Neorealism , Drama, Elderly, Entertainment, Italian Cinema, Neorealism, umberto d, vittorio de sica
Marco Bellocchio, Italy’s second generation of film directors after WW2, highly influenced by the British cinema, provides in his film debut a counter and radical approach to the bourgeois family values, religion and the Neo-realism movement. Charged with the director’s autobiographical elements, over the edge acting style and Ennio Morricone’s circular vocal treatments – the [...]
Posted by Shlomi Ron on 09.12.2007 at 9:17 am// Tagged: Classic Italian Cinema, Drama, Entertainment, Italian Cinema , Drama, Entertainment, fists in the pocket, marco bellocchio, pugni in tasca