Open City

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Alexsander F Viva o cinema italiano e o neorealismo que vos circunda, um filme que se faz muito presente em nossa contemporaneidade e, nos mostra as realidades fundamentais de um passado não muito remoto. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/28/24 Full Review Ben D Rome, Open City is a bleak, grisly look at war-battered Rome filmed only 6 months after the city fell to the Allies in WWII. Rossellini uses a mix of actors and non-actors to fill out the cast, which altogether makes the story as realistic as you can get without it being just a documentary. This being said, the movie is very slow and bereft of the action I had anticipated given the “resistance fighters” mentioned in the short summary. As a piece of art history, Rome, Open City must be unmatched for the period. However, the whole “Italian Neo-Realism” genre may not be for me, as it relies too heavily on human emotion and, well, realism, instead of acting, plot/structure, and art. This is one of those difficult movies to rate and review because its importance far outweighs its artistic value in 2024. For this reason, I’ve scored it high. But on its own, I cannot say that a typical contemporary viewer would find it enjoyable without watching for this aforementioned significance. I loved the ending with Father Pellegrini (Aldo Fabrizi), but man was it just one more dollop of despondency on this pile of depression. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 12/18/24 Full Review Audience Member A poetic style with substance but it runs very slow. The precepts of the neorealist cinema is very well developed. 4/10 Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review dave s Not only is Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City an influential cornerstone of the Italian neorealism movement, it's also a great movie. Set in Nazi occupied Rome of 1944, members of the Resistance desperately try to escape the German army, knowing that capture will lead to certain torture and probable death. It's a compelling story from the get-go, thanks primarily to remarkably well-developed characters, characters filled with courage, principles and humanity. While the first part of the film is filled with intrigue and suspense, the second half is something else altogether and is unforgettable in its impact. Rome, Open City is a film that is worthy of the praise bestowed upon it. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Builds to a dramatic and emotional closing half hour. At time a little confusing what's going on, partly as subtitles were worse than I've seen before, missing huge chunks. Worth watching for the ending scenes as much as anything. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Tony S Monumental achievement of neo-realism. Hardly a tired parable of 'Fascism = Bad' but more of a examination of what makes one human and what it takes to lose all sense of humanity. Not even by how you treat other people but how you perceive and treat yourself as a person. As Don Pietro said: "It isn't hard to die well, It is hard to live well." Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/28/21 Full Review Read all reviews

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