Love in the City (Italian: L'amore in città) is a 1953 Italian anthology film composed of six segments, each with its own writer or director. The anthology consists of the following episodes:
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Directed by | Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni Alberto Lattuada Carlo Lizzani Francesco Maselli Dino Risi Cesare Zavattini |
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Produced by | Marco Ferreri Riccardo Ghione |
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Cinematography | Gianni Di Venanzo |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
Distributed by | IFE Releasing Corporation |
Release date | 26 November 1953 (Italy) |
Running time | 105 minutes |
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.
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.
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.
Report by Alberto Lattuada on the reactions of men to the passage of pretty women.
An investigation reconstructed by Francesco Maselli and Cesare Zavattini on a woman forced to abandon her child and who does everything to find him.
Dino Risi films with tenderness and irony an evening at the ball.
A documentary on Roman prostitutes filmed by Carlo Lizzani. The film was censored and deleted in retail releases.
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