Word: rossellini
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Handsomely photographed in its stark setting of rock and sea, the picture is studded with memorable scenes. One sequence showing a woman in childbirth on a heaving sailboat makes Roberto Rossellini's handling of a similar scene...
Fearing that its treatment of ticklish religious questions might offend Roman Catholics, officials at last fall's Venice Film Festival refused at first to show the picture. But though God Needs Men ventures into the same delicate area as Director Rossellini's controversial Miracle (TIME, Feb. 26), Catholics apparently found nothing to object to in Director Delannoy's handling of the theme. After the Venice officials reconsidered their ban, God Needs Men took a grand prize at the festival, later won a special award from the International Catholic Film Office...
...battle over whether New Yorkers should be permitted to see Roberto Rossellini's film, The Miracle (TIME, Jan. 19), moved last week from a picket-lined sidewalk in Manhattan to Albany. After a special screening, ten members of the state's Board of Regents (2 Catholics, 2 Protestants, 6 Jews), agreed with Cardinal Spellman's denunciation of the film, unanimously voted to ban it, despite the protests of an impressive roster of citizens-including churchmen and lay Catholics...
Made by famed Producer-Director Roberto (Ingrid Bergman) Rossellini with his then favorite actress, Anna Magnani, it tells the story of a deranged Italian peasant girl who is seduced by a bearded wayfarer under the impression that she is seeing a vision of St. Joseph. Her resulting pregnancy, she is convinced, is of divine origin. For this pathetic delusion she is cruelly badgered by a crowd of villagers, who stage a jeering procession in mockery of this deluded "virgin...
...short, in Roman Catholicism's stronghold, The Miracle caused little or no stir. Its maker, Rossellini, was so far from being put in the church's doghouse that in 1949 he got the Vatican's approval of plans to film a life of St. Francis, in which members of the Franciscan order took part...