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May 6, 2024 · Widely considered one of the first works of Italian neorealism, Ossessione is based on James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice and tells of a drifter character called Gino who falls in love with the wife of a roadside innkeeper. There’s a genuine gritty quality to Visconti’s debut, where the bleak nature of post-war Italy is ...
May 20, 2024 · He is rejected by his wife (Laura Antonelli) whom he tries to make feel complicit in the murder, his younger brother (Didier Haudepin) who can no longer abide Tullio’s increasingly sinister air, his mistress (Jennifer O’Neill) who had so hotly pursued him, and even his devoted mother (Rina Morelli) turned devoted grandmother.
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May 6, 2024 · Anna Magnani (born March 7, 1908, Rome, Italy—died September 26, 1973, Rome) was an Italian actress, known for her forceful portrayals of earthy, working-class women. She won the Academy Award for best actress for her performance in The Rose Tattoo (1955).
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May 20, 2024 · “ The Damned (1969) Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973) are known as Luchino Visconti’s ‘German Trilogy’. Here Visconti examines the decadence of the Belle Epoque, the corruption and confusion behind the rise of Nazism in Weimar Germany, and the story of Ludwig II of Bavaria who has been viewed as very eccentric and was the patron ...
May 20, 2024 · Directed by the legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti, this cinematic masterpiece has left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. Released in 1960, “Rocco and His Brothers” tells a gripping tale of an impoverished southern Italian family that moves to the bustling city of Milan in search of a better life.
May 10, 2024 · Paul Schrader and Nicolas Roeg made Venice a dingy backdrop to stories of paranoia and sleaze with The Comfort of Strangers and Don’t Look Now, respectively. Luchino Visconti’s Senso used Venice as the home for a story of desire that melts into madness amid a war of nationalist corruption.
May 9, 2024 · Watch and discover. Sight and Sound. Interviews. “Neorealism is part of our DNA as Italians”: Paola Cortellesi on There's Still Tomorrow. Paola Cortellesi’s hit comedy drama There’s Still Tomorrow borrows the language and settings of 1940s neorealism – but the themes of feminism and domestic violence remain dismayingly contemporary. 9 May 2024.
