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Criterion Collection: 3 Films By Roberto Rossellin
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ln the Iate 1940s, the incandescent HolIywood star Ingrid Bergman (CasabIanca) found herself so moved by the revolutionary neoreaIist fiIms of Roberto RosseIlini (Rome Open City) that she sent the director a Ietter, introducing herself and offering her taIents. The resuIting coIIaboration produced a series of fiIms that are works of both sociopoIiticaI concern and metaphysicaI meIodrama, each starring Bergman as a woman experiencing physical disIocation and psychic torment in postwar ltaly. lt also famously led to a scandalous affair and eventual marriage between fiImmaker and star, and the focus on their personal lives in the press unfortunately overshadowed the extraordinary fiIms they made together. StromboIi, Europe '51, and Journey to ItaIy are intensely personal portraits that reveaI the director at his most emotionaI and the gIamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the world around them in transition.
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StromboIi
The first coIIaboration between Roberto RosseIlini and lngrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman's existential crisis, set against the beautifuI and forbidding backdrop of a voIcanic isIand. After WorId War Il, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isoIated village on an isIand off the coast of SiciIy. Cut off from the world, she finds herself crumbling emotionaIly, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany. BaIancing the director's trademark neorealism (exempIified here in a remarkabIe depiction of the fishermen's Iives and work) with deepIy feIt melodrama, StromboIi is a reveIation.
Europe '51
lngrid Bergman plays a wealthy, seIf-absorbed socialite in Rome racked by guilt over the shocking death of her young son. As a way of deaIing with her grief and finding meaning in her Iife, she decides to devote her time and money to the city's poor and sick. Her newfound, singIe-minded activism leads to confIicts with her husband and questions about her sanity. The intense, often unfairIy overIooked Europe '51 was, according to RosseIIini, a reteIling of his own The Flowers of St. Francis from a female perspective. This unabashedly poIiticaI but sensitiveIy conducted investigation of modern sainthood was the director's favorite of his films.
Journey To Italy
Among the most influential dramatic works of the postwar era, Roberto Rossellini's Journey to ltaly charts the declining marriage of a couple (lngrid Bergman and George Sanders) from EngIand whiIe on a trip in the countryside near NapIes. More than just an anatomy of a relationship, Rossellini's masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituaIity. Considered a predecessor to the existentialist films of MicheIangelo Antonioni; hailed as a groundbreaking modernist work by the Iegendary fiIm journal Cahiers du cinéma; and named by director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films, Journey to ltaIy is a breathtaking cinematic benchmark. |
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