Bellissima (1951)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Luchino Visconti

Escritores:

Cesare Zavattini (story)
Suso Cecchi d'Amico (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

15 mayo 1953 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà...

Plot Keywords:

Rehearsal | Movie Studio | Humiliation | Child | Audition

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A tour-de-force

Reparto

Anna Magnani	...	Maddalena Cecconi
Walter Chiari	...	Alberto Annovazzi
Tina Apicella	...	Maria Cecconi
Gastone Renzelli	...	Spartaco Cecconi
Tecla Scarano	...	Tilde Spernanzoni, la maestra di recitazione
Lola Braccini	...	La moglie del fotografo
Arturo Bragaglia	...	Il fotografo
Nora Ricci	...	La stiratrice
Vittorina Benvenuti
Linda Sini	...	Mimmetta
Teresa Battaggi	...	La madre snob
Gisella Monaldi	...	La portinaia
Amalia Pellegrini
Luciana Ricci
Giuseppina Arena

También conocida como:

Bellísima (Colombia) (cable TV title) [es]

Duración:

Japan:115 min | USA:108 min | UK:100 min | West Germany:115 min | Argentina:110 min

País:

Italy

Idioma:

Italiano

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Finland:S | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Compañía:

Film Bellissima

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Volver (2006/I)

Banda de Sonido:

L'elisir d'amore

A tour-de-force

Anna Magnani is magnificent as a pushy show-biz mother determined to get her daughter into the movies. She's like an early prototype of Bette Midler but she's more down-to-earth and with a greater propensity for feeling. (Midler could do the comedy but not the pathos). The film is charming but for a Visconti movie, it's slight. It's a great director's trifle about the movies; he enjoys poking fun at the stereotypes he's worked with in more serious films. It's laugh out loud funny.

The film doesn't offer any insights into the movie-making process and even the wheeling and dealing seems perfunctory. At times you wish maybe Visconti had gone a little deeper. (At the end he makes a point that the movies can be shallow but we know that already). Take Magnani out of the equation and there really isn't much left. She's the life-force that holds it together. It really is a great piece of acting.