Word: rossellini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flowers of St. Francis. Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a rich cinematic garland by Roberto Rossellini (TIME...
Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn) weaves some episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi into a rich cinematic garland. As adapted from the 14th century Fioretti di Francesco d'Assisi by Director & Co-Author Roberto Rossellini, the film is no solemn picture of a dead and embalmed saint, but a warmly human portrait of a humble man who rejected the world for a life of poverty and piety...
Except for Aldo Fabrizi, who gives a striking performance as the fiercely mustachioed tyrant, the cast consists entirely of amateurs. Francis and his fellow friars are played by Franciscan monks of the Nocere Inferiore Monastery, who take naturally to Rossellini's direction. Bounding barefoot through the fields in their tattered tunics, they bring a gentle artlessness and a shining simplicity to their roles...
...Soana near Rome, the picture's cold, grey, documentary photography powerfully evokes a world of medieval desolation. At the same time, the picture glows with a warm lyricism. In its blend of tenderness and turbulence, Flowers of St. Francis is a film poem that deserves to rank with Rossellini's own Open City and Paisan...
...beach at Rapallo, Italy, photographers caught a merry picture of Renato Roberto Rossellini, 2, getting a piggyback ride from his famous mother, Ingrid Bergman, treating herself to a holiday after giving birth to twin daughters two months...