Word: italian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration was part picnic, part protest march and part folk festival. Nearly 10,000 people, carrying accordions, flutes, guitars and a fluttering forest of posters and signs, gathered for a "festival of life" at the small Italian town of Montalto di Castro, 80 miles north of Rome, the site of two projected nuclear-power plants. The protesters were an improbable mix: elegant members of the Italian nobility, radical students in American Indian garb, middle-class citizens and Christian Democratic and Communist politicians. They were determined to halt construction of the 2,000-megawatt nuclear complex that would be built near...
...Rome concerned the tangled case of Claudia Caputi, 18, victim of a brutal gang rape last August, who has become a feminist heroine. In Italy's male-dominated Mediterranean culture, rape has usually been regarded as a shameful family secret, infrequently reported and rarely prosecuted. In fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious gang rapes...
...thrown into relief by his encounters with a cluster of well-drawn minor figures, from the cheerfully mundane Cudworths, whose very name suggests the unquestioning content of cattle, to the impeccable Mrs. Jones-Talbot, for whom the study of Dante is a ritual of appreciation for a lost Italian lover...
George Orwell wrote the above lines in tribute to an Italian colonel who dies fighting General Francisco Franco's fascist army in 1938. Orwell, who fought in Spain himself, always wrote respectfully, almost religiously, about the foreigners who aided the republicans during the Spanish Civil...
...mind about this simple DeSica film about a man and his son and their search for a stolen bicycle--only the glow I was left with as I left the theater. Perhaps I'm getting my genres crossed, but this movie would seem to fall under the heading of "Italian realist film;" at any rate, the scenery is all real, the camerawork is underplayed and the construction is perfectly scaled. Charming may be the best adjective. But this is all far too vague for such a touchingly accessible film, so make a point of seeing it for yourself...