Word: realismo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What is strong and moving about Two Women stems from the unblinking Italian taste for realismo and Author Moravia's vividly tactile imagery, which makes the reader smart with the sting of his heroines' indignities. What is weak and irritating is Leftist Moravia's implicit conviction that war is really a bloody reprise of the class struggle. The only emotion more persuasive than pity that he displays in Two Women is self-pity. When it comes to man's fate-the tragedy that lies too deep for tears-Moravia, the master weeper, refuses to open...
...standards, Woman of Rome is an unusual movie, but its grey-toned realismo is hardly a match for the novel's. In its transposition to the screen, the story retains its rather sudsy plot but has lost the perceptive insights that stitched the novel into a meaningful tale. In fleeting images, however, the movie does at times catch the heroine's fatalistic amorality, the pathos of her situation, and even the sense that this ignorant girl has capacities of emotion surpassing those of her "respectable" lovers...
...dozen pictures-all of them bad most of them popular, some of them good experience. By 1944, when Roberto Rossellini offered her the lead in Open City Magnam had developed a style that was to set the acting fashion in Italy from that day to this. She called it realismo and overnight the narrow highways and byways of Italy were crowded with "Ma-gnamni," who frumped their hair down over their eyes, ripped a few strategic seams m their cheap cotton prints and generally made a sensual virtue of postwar economic necessity...