Rome, Open City (Rossellini, 1945): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 2.40pm/6.15pm/8.40pm
This film, presented in a 4K restoration, is on an extended run at BFI Southbank, and is part of the Italian Neorealism season at the cinema. Full details here.
I haven't seen this since my post-graduate days at Derby Lonsdale
College in the mid-1980s but found it a real eye-opener at the time and
wouldn't disagree with this ecstatic review in Chicago Reader. Director Roberto Rossellini was a pioneer and this film, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, brought the attention of the world to the development of the hugely influential neorealism era in Italian cinema.
Chicago Reader review:
Roberto Rossellini's 1946 story of a group of workers and a priest in
1943-'44 Rome, declared an “open city” by the Nazis, was begun only two
months after the liberation. Its realistic treatment of everyday Italian
life heralded the postwar renaissance of the Italian cinema and the
development of neorealism; the film astonished audiences around the
world and remains a masterpiece. With Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, and
Maria Michi.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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