Bellissima (Visconti, 1951): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.30pm
This 4K presentation, which is also screened on January 27th, is part of the Luchino Visconti season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Perhaps the most unjustly neglected of Luchino Visconti’s early films is
this hilarious 1951 comedy, tailored to the talents of Anna Magnani,
about a working-class woman who is determined to get her plain
seven-year-old daughter into movies. A wonderful send-up of the Italian
film industry and the illusions that it fosters, delineated in near-epic
proportions with style and brio. With Walter Chiari and Alessandro
Blasetti.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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