Umberto Dominico Ferrari, a retired bureaucrat who can’t survive on his meager pension and is about to be evicted from his room by an unsympathetic landlady. He reaches out unsuccessfully to former colleagues for help but as the film progresses we realize that Umberto’s only real emotional connections in the world are with his dog …
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Italian neorealist filmmakers approached cinema as a vehicle for truth, they sought to portray everyday reality with all its beauty and ambiguity. In this sense, Italian Neorealism stands opposite to mainstream cinema, in which stories and film style are created in order to assist the audience to escape from reality. Cesare Zavattini, a renowned neorealist …
Starting this week and for the next two weeks, I’ll be writing about Italian Neorealism, its directors, and my favorite films from this ground-breaking cinema movement. The films and auteurs from Italian Neorealism have had an enormous influence on filmmakers to-date. Recently, the films Roma, by Alfonso Cuarón, Tangerine by Sean Baker, and 2021 award-winning …