Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) yells, bellows, rambles, fights, and connives through the entirety of Luchino Visconti's neo-realist classic Bellissima, rarely if ever stopping to catch her breath. This alone would be something to watch, but she somehow manages in all that bellowing to be engaging and downright heartbreaking at moments. We should despise Maddalena Cecconi (Magnani), a stage mother desperate to give her too-young daughter opportunities that might have been withheld from her. And yet Magnani is such a large personality that no matter how bad she gets she's still a human being.
Cecconi is a singer and actress living in a loud, bustling tenement house in Rome with her husband, Spartaco (Gastone Renzelli) and five-year-old daughter Maria (Kewpie-doll-faced Tina Apicella). A break comes in the form of an open casting call for seven- and eight-year-old girls with a famous director in town.
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Cecconi is a singer and actress living in a loud, bustling tenement house in Rome with her husband, Spartaco (Gastone Renzelli) and five-year-old daughter Maria (Kewpie-doll-faced Tina Apicella). A break comes in the form of an open casting call for seven- and eight-year-old girls with a famous director in town.
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- 5/2/2012
- by David M. DeLeon
- JustPressPlay.net
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