February 2012
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“Money kills the imagination”
– Vittorio De Sica
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Germania anno zero (1948)
Germany Year Zero is a film by Robert Rossellini. This is the third film in Rossellini’s war trilogy that began with 1945’s Rome Open City and 1946’s Paisan. In an interesting twist Germany Year Zero takes place in Berlin examining post war Germany in much the same way that the other two examined Italy. In the previous two films the Germans were the aggressors and now much like the...
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Piasa (1946)
Piasa is film by Roberto Rossellini. This was the director’s second major neorealist film after Rome Open City and is apart of his war trilogy. In studying this movement I thought it fitting to begin with these Rossellini’s films and like this, most posts from here on out will concern themselves with important films of the movement. For an overview on Neorealism please click here :)
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“The unpopularity of Neorealism by the public is that the public wants films that...”
– Luigi Comencini
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“realism is nothing other than the artistic form of the truth”
– Robert Rosselini
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Roma, città aperta (1945)
Rome Open City is a film by Roberto Rossellini. This film really was the start of the Italian Neorealist film movement. For the New Year I have set out to study this movement and thought it fitting to begin with Rossellini’s Rome Open City. Technically this is the third neorealist film, directors Mario Camerini and Giuseppe De Santi released neorealist films in the same year just months...