NEO-REALIST DOUBLE BILL
This Sunday we are off to Italy with ROME OPEN CITY (1946)
directed by the great Robert Rossellini and his ephemeral groundbreaking
experiment in social-realist filmmaking with a cast of none actors and handheld
16mm film cameras and light predominately with natural light. Based on real
events that took place in Nazi-occupied Italy in 1944, Rossellini sort to
examine the choices people had been forced to take during wartime situations,
as a piece of filmmaking it is a prime example of neo-realist filmmaking which was
executed late on by socio-realist filmmaker Peter Watkins in his now Iconic
film THE WAR GAME. Next up is ADUA E LE COMPAGNE (ADUA AND COMPANY) by little
known Italian director Antonio Pietrangeli. Staying within the neo-realism
genera we go from war to prostitution and how four women attempt to rebuild
their lives from the ashes of the past. And how it wasn’t going to be an easy
transition from street to respectability.
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