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...rigor of Malle's portrait of the youth, in fact, makes the movie a little distant. Malle was not after the kind of shattering catharsis that Vittorio de Sica, working with similar material, achieved in The Garden of the Finzi-Continis. Lucien is understandable but not especially likable, a state of affairs that solves the film's intellectual problems even as it raises dramatic ones...
...actors are all amateurs, as in all of Ray's films. Ray first saw the potential of using untrained local people as actors when he saw de Sica's The Bicycle Thief before he made Apu. But although de Sica sometimes went through 30 takes of a single scene, Ray consistently obtains deeply emotional performances with little rehearsal or retake...
...Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970). Vittorio de Sica's film about a Jewish family in fascist Italy, circa 1938. With Dominique Sanda and Helmut Berger. Ch. 4, 9:30 p.m. Color, 1 1/2 hours...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, The Mad Musician, The Terrible Turkish Executioner, The Magic Well, and The Wizard Alcofrisbas by Georges Melies, and General Della Rovere by Roberto Rossellini starring Vittorio de Sica, Nov. 15 at 7:30, $1, American Revolution II by The Film Group, and Red Flag Canal...
...finest film in the area this weekend is probably Bicycle Thief (1949, by Cesare Zavattini and Vittorio de Sica), at Currier. The understatement and visual beauty of this film underscore a simple drama: an Italian workman and his small son search Rome after a bicycle thief steals the bicycle on which the man's job depends. The amateur actors (a factory worker and a working class boy) playing lead roles are really a joy to see. This was the first major film to use amateurs, and their performances seem almost effortlessly effective. When de Sica and Zavattini approached American film...