Indiscretion of an American Wife (Blu-ray)
This Longing ... This Yearning ... This Wanting ...
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 31, 2020
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jennifer Jones & Montgomery Clift | |
Performer: | Richard Beymer & Gino Cervi | |
Directed by | Vittorio De Sica | |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma | |
Screenplay by | Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini & Giorgio Prosperi | |
Composition by | Alessandro Cicognini | |
Produced by | Vittorio De Sica | |
Director of Photography: | G.R. Aldo |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The filmmakers must have been trying to create another Brief Encounter (the railway station, the impossible love, etc) but missed by a mile and a half.
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TV Guide
De Sica's film wants to be Brief Encounter but lacks the necessary emotion, emerging instead as merely a pale imitation.
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Film4
Rating: 2.5/5 --
I'd be hard-pressed to name two actors with less obvious chemistry together.
Filmcritic.com
Bowdlerized or not, the aching pathos of two aging ingénues huddled over a restaurant table and pouring over their mutual fragility remains intact
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CinePassion
Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station gets a DVD release with it's more widely known cut version, Indiscretion of an American Wife.
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ToxicUniverse.com
The boredom is surprisingly unrelieved.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
It has a raw truth about it that is still deeply moving.
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Radio Times
Product Description:
Director Vittorio de Sica's first English language film, INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE, examines the personal romantic crises of a woman caught between romantic love and her duties as a wife and mother. The film takes place over a few hours in Rome's Terminal Station, where Mary (Jennifer Jones) is preparing to leave her Italian lover Giovanni (Montgomery Clift), who begs her to stay with him. While considering her options, Mary and Giovanni sneak off to an empty railroad car for one last passionate fling, but are soon discovered by a railway worker and arrested for indecent conduct. Mary must escape the charges to catch her train--unless she'd prefer to stay in Rome and never return to her family. Jones plays the role deftly, showing the clear pain that either decision will bring upon her, while De Sica firmly plants her dilemma against the swirl of activity and life in the Roman train station.