“Umberto D.” di Vittorio De Sica chiude idealmente la stagione del neorealismo italiano, raccontando la disperata solitudine di un pensionato e del suo cane in un’Italia post-bellica sempre più indifferente.
Bicycle Thieves remains among the most beloved films ever made, a heart-rending, poetic and compassionate rumination on the human condition that, as has often been said, invests the mundane tribulations of ordinary people with the power and pathos of Greek tragedy.
by Bosley Crowther Old age has never been a topic of particular interest to makers of films for a very obvious reason: It is not
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis has correctly been hailed as a return to the old, great form of its director, Vittorio De Sica.
Shoeshine, written by Cesare Zavattini, is a social protest film that rises above its purpose. It is a lyric study of how two boys betrayed by society betray each other and themselves
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