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...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor, in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists. Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...Roof (Italian). A story of love and squalor in equal measure, directed and written by two of Italy's most formidable neorealists, Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini...
...healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief-sweeten their pill to the public taste. Yet under the sugar-coating of a story of young love, there is still strong medicine: a calmly factual picture of how ordinary working people live in the midst of Rome's (and much...
...Director De Sica humanizes the harsh material of the story with his easy gaiety and gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their earlier films they raged at social injustice. In The Roof they are not really angry. Instead of asking the spectator to hate the world, they help him to love the people...
...notable example of the rare sort of laughter that leaves in the mind a melancholy aftertone. The three other reasons, equally good, are the other episodes in this masterly collection of Giuseppe Marotta's tales of Naples, translated to the screen by Marotta, De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini...