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Rating:  - Civilians in war
Rossellini used non professionals in each of the vignettes. So forgive the acting, but concentrate on the story which is about civilian life in the theatre of war. As the Americans go up the boot, they encounter what life is like for the Italian, the women, the children, the elderly and the young men fighting as partisans. I saw this movie as a child with my grandparents, and remember them walking home, crying and talking in their native tongue. Since they were both fluent in English I can only ... Read More
Rating: - Rossellini: An important figure in the development of the cinema...
Often dismissed as a founder of Italian Neo-Realism whose career degenerated either at the start or the end of his much publicized relationship with Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini remains one of the most underrated directors in cinema history...
Exploring the links between fiction and documentary, observation and education, and the individual and society, he was an important figure in the development of the cinema...
Rossellini said of the film: 'In Paisá there were two ... Read More
Rating:  - a devastating, haunting neo-realist epic by Rossellini
Now that I have seen all three films in Roberto Rossellini's 'post-war' trilogy (the others being the groundbreaking Open City and Germany Year-Zero), I think Paisa is the one that got to me the most. I knew when I saw clips of the film in Scorsese's My Voyage to Italy that it would have some level of promise, but I didn't know it could be this compelling. Divided up into six vignettes, Rossellini paints something of a historical document as much as a film- each one carries its own strengths (there ... Read More
Rating: - Starkly Realistic
Made in the aftermath 0f WWII in black and white, this film follows the progress of the American army up the boot of Italy through five searing vignettes, which keep you on the edge of your seat with their intensity, yet provide genuinely funny moments. It is a roller-coaster of emotions. It made an indelible imprint on my heart.
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