Two Cents Worth of Hope

Castellani let it rip with this one! The movie's a riot — but a thoroughly enjoyable one.

Carmela, the daughter of a well-to-do village fireworks manufacturer, relentlessly pursues Antonio, the returned soldier son, now unemployed, of a less than honest poor village woman.

Finally, of course love triumphs... but it's a rocky road to get there! Slowly Antonio is wooed — and when he is, he's resolute — but then they face the reluctance of both sets of parents to their match — and Antonio's sister's indiscretion with another wealthy landowner doesn't help.

I was exhausted by the end with all the shrieking, weeping, chastising and emotional swinging.

The movie is beautifully filmed. Some of the editing is a little rough. The direction improves as the movie goes along. Nino Rota gives us a taste of how his musical gift will develop in subsequent years.

Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) Director: Renato Castellani Watched: 6/22/18 Rating: 5/10

With local talent, Filmed at Mount Vesuvius; Great sitcom antics, Poverty against true love, True Italian village life.

Rallying ending, But no one was "stark naked". Distant characters, Lax voice-over narration, More frenzied yelling than laughs.

Somonka is a form of poetry that is essentially two tanka poems (the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable format), the second stanza a response to the first. Traditionally, each is a love letter and it requires two authors, but sometimes a poet takes on two personas. My somonka will be a love/hate letter to this film? #Somonka #PoemReview #Italian #PalmedOr

Hold on fast, because it's a fast train and it won't stop! Action. Is furious here, although there is no drama, no deaths, no violence, just a tremendous lot of arguing. There is a love story like a flower blossoming forth in the middle of a very wild meadow, but the love story is merged into the deluge of village life gushing forth like a lava stream from an outbreak of Vesuvius. The film is a panorama, every acting person (mostly amateurs) contributes to the sparkling display of emotional outbursts of temperament with wills and interests consistently contending, but as the love is sincere in spite of impossible conditions, it will inevitably prevail in the end, but at the cost of considerable ordeals of settlements actually touching the risqué zone.

Neo-realist comedy-drama about a young guy without a job or prospects trying to woo a girl. I often find when I watch Italian films which are not genre-oriented, I find myself struggling a bit. This one was no different, as I didn't connect with it too much and it did appear to me to ultimately boil down to scenes of Italians shouting at each other an awful lot. Yeah, I'm better off sticking to pastaland offerings featuring leather-clad killers, violent men in small cars and master criminals in gimp suits.

watch Due soldi di speranza (1952). the film is about semi - rural Italy.It depicts that despite poverty the robustness, humor and music exists.The songs Carmela sings.........and best scenes are how people up the hill tease her and she answers back. Both the lead actors are very young 21 and 17 but the director has extracted powerful performances.Vincenzo Musolino died very young,in this movie he looks very handsome older and mature than his age at that time .Carmela's character is totally unpretentious about her love ,thats out of ordinary .Filomena Russo is great in her rustic and loud way in her only movie .