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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1963
A feel-good depiction on themes of love and sexuality against the background of post-war 'Ricostruzione' Italy. Despite neorealism having ended in the mid50s, the plot is infused with details telling of lower classes during that period, i.e. the indigent intellectual looking in awe and despair at the newly-established mega-industrialist class or literally anyone in Naples, despite that episode being the most fairy-tale-like (even though inspired from the real-life story of Concetta Muccardi - 17 pregnancies), which elicits the critique that…
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Long Day's Journey Into Night 1962
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Long Day’s Journey into Night slowly but inexorably unveils the fears and anxiety of its characters, overlaid by the strained shackles of a nuclear family whose dynamics, despite the seemingly Arcadian configuration of their summer house (later abruptly denied by the bleak blare of the foghorn), are far from idyllic.
The characters all find themselves in a relentless search for an holistic understanding of their inner drives, epitomised by Edmund’s poem on getting drunk and lost in an eternal embrace…Translated from by
