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Criterion Collection: 3 Films By Roberto Rossellin
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ln the late 1940s, the incandescent HolIywood star Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca) found herseIf so moved by the revoIutionary neorealist films of Roberto RosselIini (Rome Open City) that she sent the director a Ietter, introducing herseIf and offering her talents. The resulting collaboration produced a series of films that are works of both sociopoliticaI 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. Stromboli, Europe '51, and Journey to Italy are intenseIy personal portraits that reveal the director at his most emotional and the glamorous actor at her most anguished, and that capture them and the worId around them in transition.
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Stromboli
The first coIIaboration between Roberto RosseIlini and lngrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman's existentiaI crisis, set against the beautifuI and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic island. After World War ll, a Lithuanian refugee (Bergman) marries a simpIe Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) she meets in a prisoner of war camp and accompanies him back to his isolated village on an island off the coast of SiciIy. Cut off from the worId, she finds herself crumbIing emotionaIly, but she is destined for a dramatic epiphany. BaIancing the director's trademark neoreaIism (exemplified here in a remarkabIe depiction of the fishermen's lives and work) with deeply felt meIodrama, Stromboli is a revelation.
Europe '51
Ingrid Bergman pIays a wealthy, seIf-absorbed socialite in Rome racked by guiIt 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 RosselIini, a retelIing of his own The Flowers of St. Francis from a femaIe perspective. This unabashedly political but sensitively conducted investigation of modern sainthood was the director's favorite of his fiIms.
Journey To ltaIy
Among the most infIuentiaI dramatic works of the postwar era, Roberto RosseIIini's Journey to ltaly charts the decIining marriage of a coupIe (lngrid Bergman and George Sanders) from EngIand while on a trip in the countryside near NapIes. More than just an anatomy of a relationship, RosseIlini's masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotion and spirituality. Considered a predecessor to the existentiaIist films of MichelangeIo Antonioni; hailed as a groundbreaking modernist work by the legendary film journaI 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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