| Brief Description: | One of the masterpieces of Italian Neo-Realist cinema - the Italian postwar Renaissance. The story centers on a retired civil servant, living only on his pension, whose best friend is his dog. Unable to survive on his meager income, he sacrifices a part of his pension for his dog, and is evicted by his landlady for non-payment of rent. "Infused with so much awareness that the screen seems luminous" (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker). In Italian with English subtitles.
Criterion Collection edition includes a new high-definition digital transfer, an interview with actress, Maria Pia Casilio, an essay by Stuart Klawans, the made-for-Italian television documentary, This Is Life: Vittorio De Sica.
Vittorio De Sica
Italy
1952
89 mins. |
