I would recommend that anyone invest the brief 80 minutes of your life it will take to catch up with this 1948 classic, set in the dark and depressed streets of Post-War Rome. Directed by Vitorio De Sica, this stands as a landmark in realist film-making. De Sica cast non-professional actors in the lead roles here to invest this quiet, everyday, tragedy with that realistic, pavement-centred, quality so many films aim for, but so many fail to achieve.
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