Bitter Rice

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Isa B The camera work is impressive in Bitter Rice. The screenplay is great as is the acting. There was a team of writers for this film, so that can explain the well-written screenplay. They certainly wrote well together. Afterall, Bitter Rice was nominated for Best Story in the 1950 Academy Awards. Silvana can be seen with her eyes open right before she closes them, even though she had been deceased since the previous night. It is hard to imagine how such a glaring mistake made the final cut. Even still, Bitter Rice is a great film with a strong ending. I recommend. 91/100 Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/25 Full Review Audience Member Must see Italian realism, with unique scenes of the seasonal rice harvesting workforce. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member From the show stopping extended opening sequence, in which our criminals, stolen necklace in hand, attempt to evade the police at their heels by blending into the throng of departing female workers at the train station, it's obvious we're in the hands of an energized visual storyteller, one with empathy to spare. Bitter Rice is both a beautiful and respectable black and white neorealist portrait, and a fully functional crackling, sexy crime drama. As it takes its plot to the watery fields themselves for the duration of the story, it becomes apparent that Bitter Rice is at once "a film" and "a movie". Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Starts out great with a cool set-up and premise, interesting characters, and fantastic camera work. Unfortunately it descends into schlock by the end and we've got a cheesy shoot out between the two main characters. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Interessante l'ambientazione nelle campagne con le mondine, il resto della trama pero' non e' cosi' forte e inoltre sembra tutto un po' prevedibile. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member A quintessential film of Italian neorealism of postWWII, though it became an international sensation due to the overt sex appeal and shot of breasts of Silvana Mangano, then only 19. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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