Love in the City

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04/26/2010 Five directors. Five stories. Before sex in the city, there was love. This uneven ensemble, predominantly from a feminine perspective, glimpses at the many facets of love in the city of Rome. Unsuccessful suicides, marriage agencies, the 'seduced and abandoned,' the dancehall and fleeting gazes. The tales by Fellini and Antonioni, respectively, are the weakest shorts ~ wonderful concepts, but their distinctive visions are still in development with these 1953 films. Maselli offers the most complete work and uniquely Italian situation of the 'seduced and abandoned.' I don't believe most Americans will understand the social and political factors involved with this fairly common and unfortunate situation. My favorite shorts were those by Dino Rosi and Alberto Lattuada. Rosi's concept of three hours in the paradise of the dance hall is well-executed and ripe with many characters and types of love. Lattuada's view is near perfect, delightful, distinctively Italian, sexy and humorous, all with almost no dialogue. This is not a great film; but it is a good film, definitely worth watching for the history and development of Italy and it's cinema. See more 01/31/2010 This series of short films takes you through both the darkness and light that life hands out on a daily basis, and manages to show that in the end, it's all beautiful. The most moving short for me was Maselli's "Storia di Caterina", it provoked a long thought session about hard choices and how humans make them in times of crisis. See more 10/26/2009 Una gran complilacion de segmentos dirigidos con maestria por los mejores exponentes del cine italiano de post guerra tales como Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Cesare Zavattini y Dino Risi, bajo el esquema de revista cinematografica: Lo Spettatore n. 1. Gran analogia que se hace al principio cuando uno de los directores menciona que ''asi como se usa el lapiz y el papel para escribir historias, el cine cumple la misma funcion de escritura al hacerlo con la camara y el celuloide, por supuesto, en otro lenguaje, pero con la intencion de comunicar''. Historias bastante neorrealistas, algunas con un manejo argumental impecable y una tecnica formidable. Amore che si paga de Carlo Lizzani: 4/5 Tentato suicidio de Michelangelo Antonioni: 5/5 Paradiso per 3 ore de Dino Risi: 4/5 Agenzia matrimoniale de Federico Fellini: 5/5+ Storia di Caterina de Francesco Maselli y Cesare Zavattini: 4/5 Gli italiani si voltano de Alberto Lattuada: 5/5 Muy buena!. See more 05/03/2009 I will say this of it. Of all the Italian films, I have liked many, this one had its moments and then some. What I mean is, depending on your overall mood, you might like the Antoonioni or the Lattuada, but unlikely both at the same time. Worth watching for sure. See more 01/12/2009 Antonioni, Fellini and Lattuada directed the best episodes. Though it's not a masterpiece, I recommend it to the fans of italian cinema. See more 10/21/2008 Nothing special but the concept of making a 'neorealistic" film about women in their painful journey through love and poverty. There were two of the upcoming legends of Italian cinema; Fellini and Antonioni in their early films, directing 2 remarkable segments among others. See more Read all reviews

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