Journey to Italy (Rossellini, 1954): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.40pm
This great Roberto Rossellini film is part of the 'Joanna Hogg: Influences' season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
BFI introduction: This influential and devastating study of a marriage on the rocks
centres on Bergman and Sanders’ English couple holidaying in Italy. To
mark the publication of Jeremy Cooper’s recent novel Brian, this event
will bring together Cooper in conversation with filmmaker Ben Rivers as
they introduce Rossellini’s masterpiece, and discuss the novel and
cinephilia more broadly.
Chicago Reader review:
'Roberto Rossellini's finest fiction film and
unmistakably one of the great achievements of the art. Ingrid Bergman
and George Sanders play a long-married British couple grown restless and
uncommunicative. On a trip to Italy to dispose of a piece of property,
they find their boredom thrown into relief by the Mediterranean
landscape—its vitality (Naples) and its desolation (Pompeii). But
suddenly, in one of the moments that only Rossellini can film, something
lights inside them, and their love is renewed as a bond of the spirit. A
crucial work, truthful and mysterious.'
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