A wonderfully morally adept film in which the horror is first and foremost that of a life on the absolute bottom of society. I've never really seen expressionism and realism collide like this. I feel like I get an excruciating close-up of human reality when its the most disturbing. It's an admirable artistic achievement.
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Bicycle Thieves 1948
De Sica makes post-war Italian class struggle deeply poetic without compromising the depiction of the harsh realities of the working poor. The boy playing Bruno delivers one of the best child actor performances ever.
Though dressed up in the most simple plot ever; a man and his son looking for a stolen bike, what's really going on is an intense staging of social life in Rome in 1948. This film is LOADED with people. Almost every scene blurs the boundary…
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Inger Christensen - The cicadas exist 1998
Jeg elsker Inger Christensen meget højt, og denne film er fantastisk.
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