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Love in the City (1953 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Love in the City' is a 1953 Italian anthology film composed of six segments, each with its own writer or director. The anthology consists of the following episodes:
* 'Paid Love' written and directed by Carlo Lizzani
* 'Attempted Suicide' by Michelangelo Antonioni
* 'Paradise for Three Hours' by Dino Risi
* 'Marriage Agency' written and directed by Federico Fellini
* 'Story of Caterina' by Francesco Maselli and Cesare Zavattini
* 'Italians Stare' written and directed by Alberto Lattuada
Synopsis
Under the aegis of Cesare Zavattini, precursor and theoretician of neorealism, the various authors of this film with sketches try to reconstitute according to the testimonies of the protagonists themselves various aspects of love in the city, most often tragic: young women impregnated and immediately abandoned, young prostitutes, a young unemployed mother who has to abandon her child in the middle of the street, a young girl from a family of nine children and poor parents, ready to marry any man, even the sick, to flee misery... A bit of the sad observation of the pre-abortion period of the 1950s? And even the sexual frustration of ordinary men eager to insistently detail pretty women on the street.
With this darkness, we are the opposite of Italian comedy sketch films like "The Monsters", "The Dolls" or "Boccaccio 70".
The different films are characteristic of the obsessions and the artistic way of the different authors at the time.
Attempted suicide
Young women who have tried to commit suicide for love tell their stories in front of Michelangelo Antonioni's camera placed in front of a white sheet.A marriage agency
Federico Fellini imagines a journalist who investigates a marriage agency by pretending to be a friend of a wealthy patient who wants to get married.The Italians turn around
Report by Alberto Lattuada on the reactions of men to the passage of pretty women.Catherine's Story
An investigation reconstructed by Francesco Maselli and Cesare Zavattini on a woman forced to abandon her child and who does everything to find him.The Saturday Night Ball
Dino Risi films with tenderness and irony an evening at the ball.The love we pay
A documentary on Roman prostitutes filmed by Carlo Lizzani. The film was censored and deleted in retail releases.Cast
;'Paid Love'
;'Attempted Suicide'
* Rita Josa
* Rosanna Carta
* Enrico Pelliccia
* Donatella Marrosu
* Paolo Pacetti
* Nella Bertuccioni
* Lilia Nardi
* Lena Rossi
* Maria Nobili
;'Paradise for Three Hours'
* Luisella Boni
;'Marriage Agency'
* Antonio Cifariello as Giornalista
* Livia Venturini
* Maresa Gallo
* Angela Pierro
* Rita Andreana
* Lia Natali
;'Story of Caterina'
* Caterina Rigoglioso
;'Italians Stare'
* Marisa Valenti
* Marco Ferreri
* Mario Bonotti
References
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