Open City
by Roberto Rossellini
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Actor: Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Nando Bruno, Vito AnnichiaricoDirector: Roberto Rossellini
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 105 minutes
Release Date: 2000-06-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Kino Video
Studio: Kino Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Open City
Movie Review: Prompt and perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
Prompt and perfect.....and, of course, A Classic (for this American guy and his bella Italian wife)
Summary of Open City
The Allies had barely driven the Nazis out of Rome when Roberto Rosselini went to work on Open City, considered by most to be his greatest work. Shot on bits and short ends of scavenged film, this film helped define Italian neorealism. Audiences were convinced that the actors were all amateurs (they weren't) and the whole film was improvised (it wasn't; the three screenwriters included Federico Fellini). With its semidocumentary camera style and use of actual locations, the film does feel very real. Of course, so does the opening half-hour of Saving Private Ryan, and like that film Open City is at its heart a classic war yarn any Hollywood studio would feel at home with. The story involves members of the Italian underground trying to smuggle badly needed cash out of Nazi-occupied Rome to partisan fighters in the mountains, while the Nazis are hunting down one of the underground, a notorious freedom fighter and seditionist. Anna Magnani (an actor well established in her own country who became an international star with this film) is often singled out for her portrayal as the pregnant, unwed woman who gets caught up in the action on her wedding day, but the entire cast is topnotch. The sparse subtitles are both a blessing and a curse--there is less to read, which allows the viewer to concentrate on the visuals, but there are times when non-Italian-speakers will feel like they're missing out on some juicy dialogue. --Geof MillerArt House & International VHS Video
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