The World Cinema Series continues at The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls! Join me Thursday April 30th for a FREE screening of to honor the 75th anniversary of Vittorio De Sica's fantasy comedy masterpiece, "Miracle In Milan"!
This film mas made in between his masterful, "The Bicycle Thieves" (1948) and "Umberto D" and in true neo-realist fashion, De Sica used a mix of professional and non-professional actors. He also shot the film around a wasteland near Milan's railway station and the Milan Cathedral serves as the location of the finale! So, we do get a pretty cool look & tour of Milan after WWII!
De Sica apparently made & wrote this film to show how the "the common man" can exist and he was quoted as saying: "It is true that my people have already attained happiness after their own fashion; precisely because they are destitute, these people still feel – as the majority of ordinary men perhaps no longer do – the living warmth of a ray of winter sunshine, the simple poetry of the wind. They greet water with the same pure joy as Saint Francis did."
After he broke our hearts with "Shoeshine", "Bicycle Thieves", etc. It was incredible on how he made us laugh. Even though we did not live in post-WWII Italy, you can and most likely fall in love with it's charm, just like I did.
