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The Children Are Watching Us
I bambini ci guardano
Family, betrayal and alienation: a masterpiece ahead of its time.
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Director
Vittorio De Sica
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With
Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Emilio Cigoli
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Italy 1943. 82min
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35mm
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English subtitles
A radical change from the ‘white telephone’ comedies De Sica had previously appeared in as an actor, this film marks the beginning of his collaboration with screenwriter Zavattini, the future main theorist of neorealism. Focusing on a middle-class family dealing with adultery, the film avoids trite predictable morals thanks to its main character, a child through whose eyes we witness the mysterious world of adults, so bitterly disappointing.
35mm courtesy of Cinecittà.
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