Italian cinema

Paisan (1946)

Paisan not only offers Roberto Rossellini’s broadest consideration of Italy’s fractured wartime identity, but through its anthological structure, also examines those tragedies, sacrifices, and cross-cultural connections inevitably swallowed by the indifferent sweep of history.

Journey to Italy (1954)

Roberto Rossellini’s casting of one trouble marriage against the crumbling, historical ruins of Naples reveals rocky foundations in Journey to Italy, deeply pondering how we let our mortality define our relationships, and the existential loneliness which organically emerges from them.

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