Word: sica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women, she has been nominated as the "Best Actress of 1961." She is the first person ever nominated for a top Oscar for a performance in a foreign-language film...
...beggars the cheap criticism that she is merely playing herself, she can put her hands on her hips, cock her head, turn bargaining eyes toward the camera and drench an audience in the sunshine and sadness, shrugs, shouts, laughter and song of southern Italy. She does so for De Sica in Two Women-hair blowing in her eyes, dressed sexlessly in threadbare clothes, pouting, cursing, writing chapters in the air with her hands. She plays a ferociously protective mother who is helpless to prevent her daughter's rape by Moroccan soldiers. It is a brutal but honest film...
...temperament. Usually with such beauty, there is worry about how looks are. She doesn't bother about looks. She's interested in acting." Natural Light. Sophia's depth as an actress has been the discovery of good directors, and none knows her better than Vittorio De Sica, who understands and intensifies the natural light that shines from her. "In spite of having the usual womanly defects," says De Sica chivalrously, "she is the only really spiritually honest woman I have ever known." From Gold of Naples to Two Women and her episode in Boccaccio...
...Sophia is a typical result of today's Italian cinema,'' says De Sica. "She rep resents the artistic expression that we look for, the lack of speculation based on effects. The American cinema, with all its mechanism, is no more than an industry...
Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) directed the billboard fantasy, making three-fourths of the Ekberg visible beneath the surface. Vittorio De Sica (Two Women) directed Sophia Loren in a tale about a girl who works in a traveling circus. At each town, a raffle is held and the winner gets Sophia. In one village, Sophia meets and falls in love with a local lad. To cleanse her name and clear her future, she gives the winner of that day's raffle all the money but no honey...