Word: malapaga
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Rarely has so much genuine beauty and pathos appeared in a single film as is worked into "The Walls of Malapaga." Winner of the Academy Award as the best foreign film of 1950, this French-Italian collaboration focuses on a graying Frenchman who is a refugee from age and from a murder which he has committed. His escape is not complete, but in the few days which precede his arrest he learns to love life once more. His renaissance is that of a martyr, for it takes place in the most squalid of scenes, rubble-ridden Genoa. Here...
...tragedy of "Malapaga" is the necessity of its theme. For moments, and only moments, can be enjoyed because the future is so unbearably uncertain, as illustrated by the arrest which terminates revival and romance. There is a good deal of art in this film; and there is a good deal of history...
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