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Miracle in Milan (De Sica; Joseph Burstyn) is the freshest movie in years, a brilliant departure by Producer-Director Vittorio De Sica from the tragic realism of Italy's best postwar films, including his own Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief. Still deeply concerned with man's inhumanity to man, De Sica this time accents the positive ideal of human brotherhood in a warm,exhilarating, richly comic picture...
...film's style fits no convenient pigeonhole. De Sica calls Miracle in Milan a fable for grownups, a tale suspended midway between fantasy and reality. And in its wealth of visual ideas, its deft use of music, its passages of bitter-sweet humor, stylized playfulness and social satire, the picture recalls the best of Charlie Chaplin and Rene Clair. But it is also an original work of art, touched in its finest moments with the elusive magic of poetry...
...others: Roberto (Open City, Paisan) Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica...
...surprised at the absence of foreign films or players among the major winners. Unlike last year, when Britain's Hamlet carried the day, none had been nominated. But the Academy's directors found it in their hearts to create a special award for Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief as the best foreign-language film of the year...
...Milan, Director Vittorio De Sica was "astounded." To Joseph Burstyn, the film's U.S. distributor, he cabled: "Picture circulates successfully whole world including England without ever meeting similar demands. As to girls' house scene, critics everywhere have stressed the delicate way same is conducted ... As to [the boy's] wall scene, once more its spirit and execution have been judged everywhere simply candid. May I recall that noble religious town of Brussels, Belgium, emblem is boy in said circumstances whose statue stands in one of its squares." Taking up the argument, Burstyn charged "a subtle form...