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La Peccatrice (1940) Amleto Palermi; Paola Barbara, Vittorio De Sica
La Peccatrice (1940) Amleto Palermi; Paola Barbara, Vittorio De Sica
 
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In Italian with English subtitles. The title translates to The Sinner.

According to film historian Ettore M. Margadonna, director Amleto Palermi (1890-1941) “began with sentimental comedies, but gradually deepened the tone of his pictures until we find him doing La Peccatrice, in which new roots of Italian realism are detectable.” The story concerns a young woman who has suffered years of meaningless jobs and exploitation because she was abandoned by a former lover. In 1940, a young film critic named Michelangelo Antonioni wrote that “for the first time in Italian Cinema an attempt is made to give clear cinematic completeness to a character and consequently to a film, with a fusion that is reciprocally functional of phonic vision and rhythmic values, of a penetrating expressivity.”

Also starring the great Vittorio De Sica, this is one of the great unsung works of Italian cinema.

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4 of 5 4 stars June 20, 2020
Reviewer: Carl Hinrichs from Fleetwood, PA United States  
A well acted realistic (except for the happy singing of the farm laborers doing back breaking work in the fields)tear jerker about a female cow of minimal beauty and character,the mess she makes of her life,and the men who helped her to make it a mess.`Frailty thy name is woman'.

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