103 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Roberto Rossellini
Starring Anna Magnani, Marcello Pagliero, Aldo Fabrizi, Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno
Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Italian Director Spotlight series, playing all through May. With ROME, OPEN CITY, the spotlight is on Roberto Rossellini.
In Italian with English subtitles.
This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films that would follow it to form The War Trilogy and starring some well-known actors—Aldo Fabrizi as a priest helping the partisan cause and Anna Magnani in her breakthrough role as the fiancée of a resistance member—ROME, OPEN CITY is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in its wake.
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Playing as party our Retro Boutique Cinema's Italian Director Spotlight series, playing all through May. With ROME, OPEN CITY, the spotlight is on Roberto Rossellini.
In Italian with English subtitles.
This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Though told with more melodramatic flair than the films that would follow it to form The War Trilogy and starring some well-known actors—Aldo Fabrizi as a priest helping the partisan cause and Anna Magnani in her breakthrough role as the fiancée of a resistance member—ROME, OPEN CITY is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame. Marking a watershed moment in Italian cinema, this galvanic work garnered awards around the globe and left the beginnings of a new film movement in its wake.