Word: zavattini
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...said one moviemaker last week: "He who digs a grave is the first to fall into it." But as long as the Italians keep finding gold, they are likely to keep digging. When the gold runs out, they may begin to listen to such critics as Neo-Realist Cesare Zavattini, who says: "It is a crime to use this gift of God . . . the film ... if we don't use our moral conscience and also make films of the real life we see before us. It is like using soap only to make bubbles and never to wash yourself with...
...Sica's fairy tale, written by Cesare (Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief) Zavattini, is the story of Toto the Good (Francesco Golisano), a newborn baby found in a cabbage patch by a quaint, gentle old lady. Toto is reared in an orphanage after her death and graduates one day into the streets of Milan, a youth of 20, utterly naive, trusting and goodhearted...