One of the few really perfect films is Vittorio De Sica’s 1952 Italian neo-realist classic, “Umberto D.” Directed and co-written by De Sica with his prime collaborator, screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, ...
If the Italian neo-realist movement could be said to have a definite endpoint, it would probably be Vittorio De Sica's 1952 film Umberto D., a huge international flop that was initially greeted with ...
Umberto D. opens with a street protest in Rome. The scene is shot from above. As the marchers approach an intersection a city bus cuts through the crowd, indifferent to their presence. The camera ...
Umberto D. opens with a street protest in Rome. The scene is shot from above. As the marchers approach an intersection a city bus cuts through the crowd, indifferent to their presence. The camera ...
"There are more characters than actors. So not every actor has the face for all characters," proclaims Vittorio De Sica in Criterion's definitive treatment of his neorealist classic. The statement ...
Umberto Domenico Ferrari is a retired bureaucrat living out his last days in a shabby boardinghouse, always on the verge of being evicted, alone except for the company of his beloved dog and the ...
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