Post 6: My dear Italian cinema

Since I was child,  I really enjoyed classic movies, I don´t know why but maybe I love that kind of stories. But not any movie, I mostly preferred Italian neorealistic films. In opposition to Hollywood classic movies, because I didn´t understand that way of life and obviously they were to musicals.

So well, Italian directors such as Rosellini, Felini, Antonioni, ViscontI, , De Sicca and many others that appeared some years after like Taviani brothers or Pasollini showed me how that kind of cinema is the cinema that every society needs, films that could be very critical and fun at the same time.

The humor of the Italian films is sublime and they describe perfectly their society, but this neorealistic style is not to the purpose of entertaining  people but to generate new interpretations of their communities.

After World War 2, Italy woke up totally destroyed, in a physically and morally way. Cities were devastated and many people died, the film industry had to reinvent their spaces and find new gaps and possibilities. There were no big studies so many film makers took their cameras and equipment and went off the street and recorded reality but they tried to show all the misery that war and fascism had created in that nation.

Some films like : LADRI DI BICICLETTE and UMBERTO D  by Vittorio de Sicca, ROMA CITTÀ APERTA and GERMANIA ANNO ZERO by Rossellini, LA TERRA TREMA by Visconti , were tremendous films that describe a moment and project a complete new kind of movies that still remains in the memories of any who love Italian movies.