Miracle in Milan (De Sica, 1951): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm
This presentation, part of the BFI Southbank's Italian Neorealism season, is also being screened on June 30th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Vittorio De Sica’s 1951 follow-up to The Bicycle Thief welds a
Rene Clair-inspired social fantasy to the precepts of neorealism. Based
on a novel by Cesare Zavattini, the film tells of the fight between a
band of shantytown poor and the industrialist who wants to explore for
oil beneath their village. The leader of the revolutionaries is a
visionary young man armed only with his ideals and, for a while, a magic
dove. Though the fight proves hopeless, they all fly off on broomsticks
to a better life—implying that magic is the only means of rectifying
social ills.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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