Paisà
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 5, 2019
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Mr Fat-W Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gar Moore | |
Directed by | Roberto Rossellini | |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma | |
Screenplay by | Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini & Roberto Rossellini | |
Composition by | Renzo Rossellini | |
Director of Photography: | Otello Martelli |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
this remarkable film communicates how the war in Italy actually took place on a very personal level
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Old School Reviews
Chillingly blunt, doggedly unsentimental, emotionally overwhelming
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CinePassion
Rating: 3.5/4 --
effectively maintains the rough-hewn, in-the-streets feel of neorealism, and in its best moments it feels like something captured, rather than something produced
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Q Network Film Desk
...A couple of episodes retain their original power; Federico Fellini had a hand in the script...
USA Today
Visually creative, emotionally involving look at the turbulent transition to liberated Italy in 1945.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: B --
Has a passion, unlike a newsreel, that resonates and its authenticity as an important document of history cannot be denied.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
[The drama] often has the quality of potent one-act plays....PAISAN's overriding theme is communication, both the tragedies that occur when it breaks down and the connections possible when people from different cultures understand each other...
A.V. Club
Product Description:
Beginning with the sound of a gun being fired, PAISAN, Roberto Rossellini's excellent treatment of WW II Italy, is divided into six vignettes about life in the war and its consequences for people all over Italy. Using an English-language narrator, but including English, Italian, and German dialogue, the film is a tricky masterpiece of filming and storytelling, cowritten by Rossellini and Federico Fellini. The movie illustrates the way that war brought people together and made them understand each other in different ways--overcoming barriers of nationality, cultural and class difference, language, religion, and gender. Each of PAISAN's vignettes is captivating and enlightening while examining serious, sometimes harrowing, and often murderous war situations. In the first, an American soldier and a young Italian girl spend the night guarding the American barracks in the ruins of a castle by the sea, until they are attacked by German troops. In another vignette, an African American officer befriends a peasant boy, only to find himself unable to cope with the boy's poverty. In Rome, an Italian girl waits in the rain for an American soldier who promised to come for her at the beginning of the war; and, in one of the most brilliant and truly funny sequences in Italian film history, three American soldiers--one Protestant, one Jew, and one Catholic--share a religious visit with the monks of a conservative Italian monastery.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 47,630
- UPC: 191091549483
- Shipping Weight: 0.22/lbs (approx)
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