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Love in the City

Original title: L'amore in città
  • 19531953
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 55m
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6.5/10
1.3K
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Love in the City (1953)
DramaRomance
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques o... Read allSix separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
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  • Directors
    • Michelangelo Antonioni(segment Tentato suicidio)
    • Federico Fellini(segment Agenzia matrimoniale)
    • Alberto Lattuada(segment Gli italiani si voltano)
  • Writers
    • Aldo Buzzi(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga, Paradiso per 3 ore)
    • Luigi Chiarini(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga)
    • Luigi Malerba(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga, Paradiso per 3 ore)
  • Stars
    • Rita Josa
    • Rosanna Carta
    • Enrico Pelliccia
  • Directors
    • Michelangelo Antonioni(segment Tentato suicidio)
    • Federico Fellini(segment Agenzia matrimoniale)
    • Alberto Lattuada(segment Gli italiani si voltano)
  • Writers
    • Aldo Buzzi(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga, Paradiso per 3 ore)
    • Luigi Chiarini(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga)
    • Luigi Malerba(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga, Paradiso per 3 ore)
  • Stars
    • Rita Josa
    • Rosanna Carta
    • Enrico Pelliccia
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    • 10User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    Rita Josa
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Rosanna Carta
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Enrico Pelliccia
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Donatella Marrosu
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Paolo Pacetti
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Nella Bertuccioni
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Lilia Nardi
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Lena Rossi
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Maria Nobili
    • (segment "Tentato suicidio")
    Antonio Cifariello
    Antonio Cifariello
    • Giornalista (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Livia Venturini
    • (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Maresa Gallo
    • (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Angela Pierro
    • Madame (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Rita Andreana
    • (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Lia Natali
    • (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Cristina Grado
    • (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Ilario Malaschini
    • Attilio (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    Sue Ellen Blake
    Sue Ellen Blake
    • (segment "Agenzia matrimoniale, Un'")
    • Directors
      • Michelangelo Antonioni(segment Tentato suicidio)
      • Federico Fellini(segment Agenzia matrimoniale)
      • Alberto Lattuada(segment Gli italiani si voltano)
    • Writers
      • Aldo Buzzi(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga, Paradiso per 3 ore)
      • Luigi Chiarini(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga)
      • Luigi Malerba(segments Tentato suicidio, Gli italiani si voltano, Amore che si paga, Paradiso per 3 ore)
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    • Trivia
      In the opening segment, Carlo Lizzani's "Paid Love", patrons are seen leaving a cinema showing The Lady Without Camelias (1953). This was Michelangelo Antonioni's previous film; Antonioni of course is also one of the contributors to Love in the City (1953).
    • Connections
      Referenced in F for Fake (1973)

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    8/10
    An experiment of newsreel, today we will say docufilm, recited according to the stylistic elements that would later become cinema-truth, with a splash of neorealism.
    An experiment of newsreel, today we will say docufilm, recited according to the stylistic elements that would later become cinema-truth, with a splash of neorealism. All supervised by Cesare Zavattini, with the involvement of directors who will make the history of Italian cinema. Among other episodic films whose typology, born for production reasons, will assert itself in a fluctuating way in the following years. Perhaps the adjective desperate had to be added to the subject love of the title, in fact apart from the amusing episodes filmed by Risi and Blasetti, the latter a little repetitive on Italic guardonism, the rest sheds light on episodes of social sadness following the post-war years, which did not predict a rapid economic development, reaching the maximum of drama in the episode of Maselli, a news item that aroused a lot of emotion, written with four hands with Zavattini. The episode with the most stylistic rigor is the Fellini episode, with shots that anticipate the subsequent masterpieces. The episodes signed by Lizzani, on prostitution not yet regulated by Merlin, and Antonioni, on suicide attempts, are rather colorless. However, an experiment of cinematography, little known, which presupposed a sequel that was never realized.
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    • Release date
      • November 27, 1953 (Italy)
      • Italy
      • Italian
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    • Filming locations
      • Baretto, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production company
      • Faro Film
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    • 1 hour 55 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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