Journey to Italy

Journey to Italy: Fun Couples By Paul Thomas ESSAYS — SEP 26, 2013 Geoffrey Nowell-Smith once charac­terized Luchino Viscontis career as sweeping “in a wide arc round the area generally known as neorealism,” at times approaching but never quite touching that idealized form. Much the same could be said of many other so-called Italian neorealists—and, for that matter, of Jean Renoir too, although Renoir was no Italian; the film that set the tone for neorealism, Renoirs Toni, was made in France in 1934. Italian directors, in what was a minor national industry for a while, became adept at... read more