Stromboli
by Roberto Rossellini
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Actor: Gaetano Famularo, Ingrid Bergman, Mario Sponzo, Mario Vitale, Renzo CesanaDirector: Roberto Rossellini
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 107 minutes
Release Date: 1991-11-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Connoisseur Video
Studio: Connoisseur Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Stromboli
Movie Review: A great film with a spiritual message for pharisees and agnostics
Summary: 5 Stars
This is, since I saw it last night, one of my favorite 10 films ever. It has such an emotional, passionate spiritual charge that seems to be about to erupt any time inside you. The story gets you from the start; you will grow to understand all the characters here. If you ?nd up hating the townfolk (the pharisees of the story) you will surely have missed the whole point, for this is a story of love and sacrifice, exactly what The Lord Jesus was all about. For, also, Ingrid Bergman grows to accept God's will by aknowledging that she can't fight "the world" by herself, thus her heartwrenching cry out to 'Dio' at the end of the film. Ms. Bergman is in the best of her career here, the role just suits her person perfectly. Pay attention to her facial expressions while contemplating how the fishermen catch the tune, how really vulnerable she looks. How well mr. Rossellini has captured her evolution from carnal superiority and selfishness to spiritual realization of herself. Her climb up the volcano extenuates the last of her physical strenght making her rely only of whatever seems to hang on those beautiful stars in the night sky. She gives herself up to God, that God she resisted to believe or rely on. But the existence of that God will afect you only if you make the great leap of faith first. And she seems to make it. A glorious moment in the history of film. A work of art. Her clim up the volcano is one of the most emotionally charged moments in the history of film.
I hope someday Criterion gives the right treatment to this gorgeous movie (even only for the wonderful Sicilian settings is worth watching -it reminds me of Antonioni's La'ventura-). I wathced a cheap Region 2 edition which is a sacrilege to the quality of this film.
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