Vittorio De Sica
4 titles · european arthouse
Neorealism with a child watching. De Sica shot in the street with non-professionals and arranged his stories so that the moral failure is society's and the humiliation is one specific man's, usually witnessed by his son.
Signature
- Non-professional casts in real locations.
- Postwar poverty depicted procedurally — work, papers, queues.
- A child as the moral witness to adult humiliation.
- Endings that decline rescue.
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