Long wires are extra tears The film of the classics of neorealism directed by Vittorio De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zawattini, although he was fondled in French Cannes and nominated for an American Oscar, was unfriendly met at home. De Sica wrote to Jawattini: “I could see that some of the authors ... took advantage of this film as a new reason to say that you and I should separate and at all costs break our more than a decade of cooperation.”
But were those who were disappointed in the film wrong? This work was a clear departure from the principles of neorealism: invited American movie stars, pavilion shootings, the lives of ordinary people - somewhere on the screen backyard ... There are a few details accurately noticed by the operator at the beginning of the film, but then we see something like a play played by two actors – Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift. And none of them are sympathetic.
Marie Forbes came to Rome with her sister, leaving her husband and daughter at home. On the Spanish Steps, she met Giovanni Doria, mistaking him for an American, and quickly went to bed with him. Giovanni never understood why Marie agreed so quickly to the affair.
A month has passed, but Marie can't decide to go home. She admits that when she sees Giovanni, she no longer belongs to herself and forgets about the house, husband and daughter. During one of the attempts to go back, she buys her daughter a Sicilian dress as a gift, but forgets it on the train, meeting a lover on the platform.
The film is the story of a few hours Marie and Giovanni spent at Rome’s Termini station. They can not break up until, by coincidence, the police Commissioner (Gino Cervi) asks the woman a specific question: do you go home?
To my taste, De Sica and Zawattini made a very crisis-prone and very American film. Sugar melodrama, where the missing characters are sympathetic - a deceived husband and a little girl who did not receive a gift from her mother.
Jennifer Jones costume was created by Christian Dior, for which he received an Oscar. But this is not the case where "the main thing is that the suit sits."
6 out of 10
