satyajit ray and his apu trilogy are not about the untouchables. in fact the family we see, apu's family is an upper class brahmin family and apu's father is a preist. in fact it is the brahmins who practiced untouchability for the most part.
Read recently that the Roman city authorities initially refused permission for the filming of Roman Holiday because they thought it showed Italians in a bad light.
Interesting. The question needs to be asked why it's called "neo-realism". The "Neo" could originate from some silent films from the 1920's and very early 30's, for example "Menschen am Sonntag". I am hard pressed to see many examples of "realism" in early films - "Birth of a Nation" comes to mind as a negative example (ideologically) - perhaps even Sergey aeisensteins "Battleship Potemkin. But then I am not a film buff. I think Rosellini's classics "Roma, Citta Aperta" and "Germania, Anno Zero" mark a beginning of realism. They, like the "Bicycle Thieves" are a reckoning with "post-war" and fascist reality. They make unbelievable strides without the advantage (or disadvantage) of big studio lots and sets. Other, follow on films, like "Adua e lá Compania" and "La Strada" continue this "new tradition" with a more staged, but still believable, mystery. The real story comes from suffering the "human condition".
You´re right in one sense, but wrong in another: Neorealism did start with that movie as a film style but it was officially discovered outside Italy with Rome Open City. Ossessione was only retrospectively considered part of the movement sometime later, when historians went over it.
satyajit ray and his apu trilogy are not about the untouchables. in fact the family we see, apu's family is an upper class brahmin family and apu's father is a preist. in fact it is the brahmins who practiced untouchability for the most part.
Theres something so sweet about the class’s collective laugh at the old man in the bed
Very enjoyable orator.
Read recently that the Roman city authorities initially refused permission for the filming of Roman Holiday because they thought it showed Italians in a bad light.
Interesting. The question needs to be asked why it's called "neo-realism". The "Neo" could originate from some silent films from the 1920's and very early 30's, for example "Menschen am Sonntag".
I am hard pressed to see many examples of "realism" in early films - "Birth of a Nation" comes to mind as a negative example (ideologically) - perhaps even Sergey aeisensteins "Battleship Potemkin. But then I am not a film buff.
I think Rosellini's classics "Roma, Citta Aperta" and "Germania, Anno Zero" mark a beginning of realism. They, like the "Bicycle Thieves" are a reckoning with "post-war" and fascist reality. They make unbelievable strides without the advantage (or disadvantage) of big studio lots and sets.
Other, follow on films, like "Adua e lá Compania" and "La Strada" continue this "new tradition" with a more staged, but still believable, mystery.
The real story comes from suffering the "human condition".
love it!
A primer for living in the US in 2025...
neorealism started in 1943, with luchino visconti's *ossessione,* not at the end of WW2. go back to grad school.
infatti lo dice. Veditelo tutto il video va.
what ddigio says is that he actually talks about it in the video and you at least have to watch it full.
You´re right in one sense, but wrong in another: Neorealism did start with that movie as a film style but it was officially discovered outside Italy with Rome Open City. Ossessione was only retrospectively considered part of the movement sometime later, when historians went over it.