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Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

  • Starring: Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio
  • Summary: This 50th Anniversary restoration and re-release of Vitorio Di Sica's 1952 film, considered a masterpiece of Italian neo-realism, portrays a hero of everday life.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. A film that lets life flood into our souls.
  2. The credo of Italy's fabled neorealist movement was that movies rooted in real, unadorned experience carry more dramatic impact than studio concoctions can dream of, and this 1952 masterpiece exemplifies that argument brilliantly.
  3. Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    80
    The ending is happy, but the general effect of the film is disturbing, so compelling is De Sica's description of a man's solitude.
  4. It's too bad that the film is sporadically crude (a moment of suicidal angst is illustrated with a shove-zoom to the pavement), prone to mega-Italian extroversion, and far too in love with stupid pet tricks.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. PrabhatS
    10
    De Sica is superb in narrating a tale which is beyond the boundaries of time. Umberto still lives with us, in our times, in our society. His story moves and keeps us moving. Collapse

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