Réalisation:
Giuseppe De SantisPhotographie:
Otello MartelliActeurs·trices:
Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Maria Capuzzo, Raf Vallone, Attilio Dottesio, Ermanno Randi, Anna Maestri, Nico Pepe (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Après avoir volé un collier, un jeune voyou, Walter, et sa complice, Francesca, se mêlent à un convoi de travailleuses qui part vers les rizières. Reconnu par la police, Walter est contraint de se cacher tandis que Francesca réussit à passer pour une des femmes qui partent travailler. Mais Silvana, une travailleuse, va, pour son malheur et celui de Walter, s'intéresser à leur histoire. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (1)
Mud wrestling, a MacGuffin in the form of a necklace, beautiful legs, pretty faces, inclinations toward the musical genre and lesbian sex. The team of screenwriters packed all kind of things into their work – which, with the passage of time, seems to have been mainly for marketing purposes – but not much neorealism remained as a result. For a film noir movie that would have elicited the bitter laughter of the original Italian title, Riso amaro (riso = past participle of ridere, to laugh), there are melodramatic moments that are too seriously intended and a preponderance of women who do not control anyone’s destiny, but only passively submit to brute masculine power. Bitter Rice compelled me to see De Santis not as a leading representative of the post-war neorealism school, revealing and changing, but as a pioneer of pink neorealism, which used social issues and leftist ideals only as a front for straightforward commercial entertainment. 65% ()
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