Riso amaro
Regie:
Giuseppe De SantisKamera:
Otello MartelliBesetzung:
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Maria Capuzzo, Raf Vallone, Attilio Dottesio, Ermanno Randi, Anna Maestri, Nico Pepe (mehr)Streaming (2)
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In einem gigantischen Ansturm fluten Mondine im Mai die Po-Ebene. Die Saisonarbeiterinnen kommen zur Reisernte in das Tal. Unter ihnen ist Francesca, die Geliebte des Ganoven Walter (Vittorio Gassman). Als er im Lager bei ihr auftaucht, gibt es Streit. Verärgert macht sich der attraktive Gauner an die gut gebaute Helferin Silvana (Silvana Mangano) ran. Mit ihrer Hilfe will er die Frauen um ihren Lohn betrügen … (filmjuwelen/fernsehjuwelen)
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Mud wrestling, a MacGuffin in the form of a necklace, beautiful legs, pretty faces, inclinations toward the musical genre and lesbian sex. The team of screenwriters packed all kind of things into their work – which, with the passage of time, seems to have been mainly for marketing purposes – but not much neorealism remained as a result. For a film noir movie that would have elicited the bitter laughter of the original Italian title, Riso amaro (riso = past participle of ridere, to laugh), there are melodramatic moments that are too seriously intended and a preponderance of women who do not control anyone’s destiny, but only passively submit to brute masculine power. Bitter Rice compelled me to see De Santis not as a leading representative of the post-war neorealism school, revealing and changing, but as a pioneer of pink neorealism, which used social issues and leftist ideals only as a front for straightforward commercial entertainment. 65%
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