Roberto Rossellini’s Germany, Year Zero (‘Germania anna zero’, 1948) was the heartbreaking third and final film in the director’s neorealist war trilogy. Although the two previous films – Rome, Open City [1945]…
Tag: Neo-Realism
Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece, Bicycle Thieves (1948) opens in front of a freshly reconstructed government building with a crowd of city’s skilled yet unemployed laborers. The story’s central character after getting…
Film-maker and screenwriter Paul Schrader in his remarkable introduction essay to the new edition of his seminal film theory text, ‘Trascendental Style in Film’, asserts that: “Roberto Rossellini deserves a special mention…
“The Fiances (I Fidanzati, 1963) zeroes-in on the solitary longing of a stolid, young blue-collar worker wandering through the bright, windy, and expansive Sicilian landscape.” Italian neorealist film-maker Ermanno Olmi, who hailed…
Day 1: The basic necessities: food, water, shelter and comfort of clothes. Day 2: The decay begins with the greed and immoralities. Day 3: The futility of existence, the pointlessness of life. Day…
For the past half-century, British film-maker Kenneth Charles Loach has been making films that showcase the political and social experiences of the working class. From the earlier BBC plays to the Palme…
