Word: bellissima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bellissima (Films Bellisslma; I.F.E...
...Bellissima has the hard, crudely vigorous look of the good Italian postwar pictures, but deep down, it is soft-focus moviemaking. The mother's last-minute change of mind is unconvincing, and there is no real contrast between the make-believe film world and the world of actuality. Without this necessary social comment, Bellissima is little more than an overblown melodrama. As the overly ambitious mother, Italy's expert Actress Magnani gives one of her earthily explosive performances. The trouble is that the role she plays is too flimsy to sustain her powerful acting. Landfall (Associated British Picture...
...Rome's open-air opera in the Baths of Caracalla, two well-lighted Hollywood stars attended a performance of Verdi's Aïda. At the end of the first act, the audience spotted Princess Aly (Rita Hayworth) Khan sitting in the first row, excitedly howled "Viva Bellissima Rita!" The Princess, wearing a plain white evening gown embellished with white flowers, rose, smiled and bowed to her admirers. No one seemed to notice Signora Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini, who kept quietly to herself in the tenth...
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