Indiscretion of an American Wife (Blu-ray)

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Format:  Blu-ray
item number:  7399Q
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  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: March 31, 2020
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 630
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. Full Review
TV Guide
Aug 13, 2014
De Sica's film wants to be Brief Encounter but lacks the necessary emotion, emerging instead as merely a pale imitation. Full Review
Film4
May 24, 2003
Rating: 2.5/5 -- I'd be hard-pressed to name two actors with less obvious chemistry together.
Filmcritic.com
Aug 22, 2003
Bowdlerized or not, the aching pathos of two aging ingénues huddled over a restaurant table and pouring over their mutual fragility remains intact Full Review
CinePassion
Sep 25, 2009
Vittorio De Sica's Terminal Station gets a DVD release with it's more widely known cut version, Indiscretion of an American Wife. Full Review
ToxicUniverse.com
Jan 31, 2005
The boredom is surprisingly unrelieved. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Aug 13, 2014
Rating: 3/5 -- It has a raw truth about it that is still deeply moving. Full Review
Radio Times
Aug 13, 2014

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.

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