Films byTexts by 1952
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Vittorio De Sica, 1952, 89’
A heartfelt portrait of an impoverished retired civil servant who lives in a rented room in postwar Rome with only his beloved dog and a teenage housemaid as companions.
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Roberto Rossellini, 1952, 85’
“You cannot go on shooting in ruined cities forever.”
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Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952, 103’
In 1927, Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. Lina, however, mistakes the on-screen romance for real love. Don has worked hard to get where he is today, with his former partner Cosmo.
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Max Ophüls, 1952, 95’
Three separate stories about the same thing: pleasure.
“A few main themes mark Maupasant’s life and work: money - war - peasants (from his native Normandy) - water (rivers, the sea) - ghosts - superstition - we chose: ‘pleasure’.”