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List Price: $7.98 Our Price: $7.98 Features • Black & White • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 09 May, 1961 DVD Release : 30 June, 1998 |
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Two Women description Sophia Loren won a much-deserved Academy Award for her performance in this 1960 classic by neo-realist filmmaker Vittorio de Sica. A last-minute substitute for Anna Magnani, Loren reached deep within her own memories of wartime experiences for her portrait of a widow struggling to survive in battle-scarred Italy along with a teenage daughter (Eleonora Brown). The film begins with both women sharing romantic feelings toward a young man (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a story line disrupted by the ravages of World War II and the horrifying rape of both mother and daughter in a church by Allied Moroccan soldiers. The aftermath of this atrocity finds both characters dealing with even more, varying shades of grief, as the war seems to sap all that they had treasured and leaves them with only the bare bones of their emotional and physical survival. De Sica's capacity to render tragedy both with the starkest of strokes and the most delicate of emotions has never been more impressive than in this film, and Loren's shatteringly honest portrayal is a watershed in movie history. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Rated for the acting, not the quality of the DVD |
| This is one,powerful film! Sophia Loren delivers the performance that indeed is a watershed of emotions on film.
As other reviewers have said, the character development is extremely well done, and by the time the movie is half over, I felt the drama was realistic, not overly done at all. The bond between mother and daughter is sensitive, caring...all the right stuff. Loren's acting in this piece was waaaay ahead of it's time, and treats a theme that is now 'chic' in current cinema - the ravages of war. Where other films might glamorize the topic, this one went all the way in realism. And for that it is an uneasy view. By the end of the film, one feels completely spent and exhausted. Warning: Not your 'easy Saturday night light viewing'. |
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