Amo te sola

Besides being a pleasant romantic music vehicle for Vittorio De Sica and Milly (it is always a joy to see the charming young De Sica singing and playing piano) Amo Te Sola offers viewers an interesting and well portrayed period setting,which English language viewers at least may not be so familiar with. In the year of 1848 tumults erupted all across Europe and the Grand Duchy of Florence was no exception. De Sica plays a composer and music professor who falls in with a group of political rebels in a cafe, gets into an altercation with an aristocratic lawyer, and is sentenced to exile.Later when he returns from a now successful career as an opera artist in Milan, he is reunited with the somewhat apprehensive young lady from the lawyer's family he loves.A triumphant march of the now successful, flag waving rebels occurs in the night streets. It is also interesting how the decidedly illiberal Fascist regime of the period when the film was made appealed to earlier decidedly liberal movements such as 1848 and the later Risorgimento under which the various states of Italy were finally unified, for patriotic propaganda purposes. The film is competently directed by Mario Mattoli, who would later become a specialist in comedy such as the outstanding The Poor And The Noble.